Ecclesiastes 2:23

New King James Version

For all his days are sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall 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; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

Esther 6:1

That night the king could not sleep. So one was commanded to bring the book of the records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.

Job 14:1

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

Job 5:7

Yet man is born to trouble, As the sparks fly upward.

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.

Psalm 32:4

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

Psalm 90:15

Make us glad according to the days in which You have afflicted us, The years in which we have seen evil.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven; this burdensome task God has given to the sons of man, by which they may be exercised.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

For in much wisdom is much grief, And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done And on the labor in which I had toiled; And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun.

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 permit him to sleep.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days he also eats in darkness, And he has much sorrow and sickness and anger.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, even though one sees no sleep day or night,

Daniel 6:18

Now the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; and no musicians were brought before him. Also his sleep went from him.

Acts 14:22

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, “We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.”