Ecclesiastes 8:16

The Scriptures 1998

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,

Cross References

Genesis 31:40

“Thus I was! By day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

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.

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 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun. And see, all was futile and feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I set my heart to know wisdom – and to know madness and folly. I know that this too is feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

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

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one, without a second, who has neither son nor brother. And there is no end to all his labours. His eye also is not satisfied with riches. “And for whom am I toiling and depriving myself of good?” That too is futility, and an evil task.

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 7:25

I have turned round, even my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom and a conclusion, to know the wrongness of folly, even of foolishness and madness.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

For he does not know what shall be; so who declares to him when it shall be?

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I have seen; I applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: There is a time in which a man rules over a man for his evil.