Ecclesiastes 2:23

New American Bible - revised edition

Every day sorrow and grief are their occupation; even at night their hearts are not at rest. This also is vanity.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

To the man he said: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, You shall not eat from it, Cursed is the ground because of you! In toil you shall eat its yield all the days of your life.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob replied: “The years I have lived as a wayfarer amount to a hundred and thirty. Few and hard have been these years of my life, and they do not compare with the years that my ancestors lived as wayfarers.”

Job 14:1

Man born of woman is short-lived and full of trouble,

Job 5:7

Human beings beget mischief as sparks fly upward.

Psalm 127:2

It is vain for you to rise early and put off your rest at night, To eat bread earned by hard toil— all this God gives to his beloved in sleep.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength withered as in dry summer heat. Selah

Psalm 90:15

Make us glad as many days as you humbled us, for as many years as we have seen trouble.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

and I applied my mind to search and investigate in wisdom all things that are done under the sun. A bad business God has given to human beings to be busied with.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

For in much wisdom there is much sorrow; whoever increases knowledge increases grief.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

But when I turned to all the works that my hands had wrought, and to the fruit of the toil for which I had toiled so much, see! all was vanity and a chase after wind. There is no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

This is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches hoarded by their owners to their own hurt.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

Here is what I see as good: It is appropriate to eat and drink and prosper from all the toil one toils at under the sun during the limited days of life God gives us; for this is our lot.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, though neither by day nor by night do one’s eyes see sleep,

Daniel 6:18

To forestall any tampering, the king sealed with his own ring and the rings of the lords the stone that had been brought to block the opening of the den.

Acts 14:22

They strengthened the spirits of the disciples and exhorted them to persevere in the faith, saying, “It is necessary for us to undergo many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.”