Ecclesiastes 2:23

The Scriptures 1998

For all his days are sufferings, and his work grievous; even in the night his heart takes no rest. That too is futile.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

And to the man He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘Do not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground because of you, in toil you are to eat of it all the days of your life,

Genesis 47:9

And Yaʽ

Esther 6:1

On that night the sleep of the sovereign fled, and he commanded to bring the book of the records of the annals. And they were read before the sovereign.

Job 14:1

“Man born of woman is of few days and turmoil-filled.

Job 5:7

for man is born for trouble, and the sparks fly upward.

Psalm 127:2

In vain do you rise up early, To sit up late, to eat the bread of toil; So He gives His beloved sleep.

Psalm 32:4

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

Psalm 90:15

Give us joy according to The days You have afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that has been done under the heavens; this evil task Elohim has given to the sons of man, to be humbled by it.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases suffering.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

But when I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labour in which I had toiled, see, all was futile and feeding on wind, and there was no gain under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

Sweet is the sleep of a labourer whether he eats little or much, but the plenty of the rich does not let him sleep.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days he also eats in darkness, and with much sorrow and sickness and wrath.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the task which has been done on earth, even though one sees no sleep day or night,

Daniel 6:18

And the sovereign went to his palace and spent the night fasting. And no entertainment was brought before him, and his sleep fled from him.

Acts 14:22

strengthening the beings of the taught ones, encouraging them to continue in the belief, and that through many pressures we have to enter the reign of Elohim.