Ecclesiastes 2:23

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For all his days are full of pain, and his work is a vexation; even in the night his mind does not 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 of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; 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 sojourning are a 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 sojourning.”

Esther 6:1

On that night the king could not sleep; and he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.

Job 14:1

“Man that 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 that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah

Psalm 90:15

Make us glad as many days as thou hast afflicted us, and as many years as we have seen evil.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much; but the surfeit of the rich will not let him sleep.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

and spent all his days in darkness and grief, in much vexation and sickness and resentment?

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my mind to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night one's eyes see sleep;

Daniel 6:18

Then the king went to his palace, and spent the night fasting; no diversions were brought to him, and sleep fled from him.

Acts 14:22

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