Ecclesiastes 8:16

Modern King James Version

When I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth; for neither day nor night do men see sleep with their eyes.

Cross References

Genesis 31:40

I was there; in the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night. And my sleep departed from my eyes.

Psalm 127:2

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

Ecclesiastes 1:13

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

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I gave my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I know that this also is vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are sorrows, and his labor sadness; yea, his heart does not take rest in the night. This is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither son nor brother; yet there is no end to all his labor; and his eyes are not satisfied with riches; and he says , For whom do I labor and take good from my soul? This is also vanity. Yes, it is an evil business.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I set my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness;

Ecclesiastes 8:7

For he does not know what shall be; for who can tell him when it shall be?

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I have seen, and I gave my heart to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.