Ecclesiastes 2:23

New International Version

All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.”

Esther 6:1

That night the king could not sleep; so he ordered the book of the chronicles, the record of his reign, to be brought in and read to him.

Job 14:1

“Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble.

Job 5:7

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

Psalm 127:2

In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat— for he grants sleep to those he loves.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.

Psalm 90:15

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

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind!

Ecclesiastes 1:18

For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether they eat little or much, but as for the rich, their abundance permits them no sleep.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All their days they eat in darkness, with great frustration, affliction and anger.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night—

Daniel 6:18

Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night without eating and without any entertainment being brought to him. And he could not sleep.

Acts 14:22

strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith. “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.