Ecclesiastes 2:23

Modern English Version

All his days are sorrowful, and his work is a vexation. Even at night his heart finds no rest. This also is vanity.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ Cursed is the ground on account of you; in hard labor you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years. My days of the years of my life have been few and evil, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the lives of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

Esther 6:1

During that night the king could not sleep, so he ordered that the book of memorable acts (the chronicles) be brought, and they were read before the king.

Job 14:1

“Man who is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

Job 5:7

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Psalm 127:2

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

Psalm 32:4

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was turned into the drought of summer.   Selah

Psalm 90:15

Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I set my heart to seek and to investigate with wisdom everything that is done under heaven. It is a burdensome task that God has given to humanity to be occupied with.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

For in an abundance of wisdom is an abundance of frustration, and the one who increases in knowledge also increases in sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I turned to all the work that my hands had done, and all the labor in which I had toiled doing it; and again, all of it was vanity and chasing the wind, and there was no benefit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

Sweet is the sleep of one who works hard, whether he eats little or much; but due to the excess of the rich, there will be no sleep for him.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

Moreover, in all his days he eats in darkness, while he is greatly irritated in sickness and anger.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to observe the business that is done on earth, while day and night there is no sleep for one’s eyes,

Daniel 6:18

Then the king went to his palace and passed the night fasting, and no instruments of music were brought before him. And his sleep fled from him.

Acts 14:22

strengthening the minds of the disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith, to go through many afflictions and thus enter the kingdom of God.