Ecclesiastes 8:16

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

When I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to see the task that is done on the earth; for even by day and by night he does not see sleep in his eyes.

Cross References

Genesis 31:40

I was there; by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night. And my sleep fled from my eyes.

Psalm 127:2

Being early to rise is in vain for you, being late to sit up to eat the bread of toils is vain; for so He gives His beloved sleep.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I gave my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all which is done under the heavens. It is an evil task God has given to the sons of men, to be afflicted by it.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and striving after wind!

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness, and folly. I know that this also, it is striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are pains, and his task is grief; his heart does not even lie down in the night. Even this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one alone, and there is not a second; and there is not a son or a brother to him; and there is not an end to all his labor; even his eyes are not satisfied with riches; and he says, For whom do I labor, and my soul be without good? This is also vanity; yea, it is an evil task.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

The sleep of the laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much. But the sated lust of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

And I turned my heart about, to know, and to search out, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, and the foolishness of madness:

Ecclesiastes 8:7

For he does not know what shall be. For who can declare to him when it shall be?

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I have seen. I gave my heart to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which a man rules over a man for an evil reason to him.