Ecclesiastes 2:23

Tree of Life Version

For all his days, his work is pain and grief. Even at night his mind does not rest. This also is futility.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

Then to the man He said, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate of the tree which I commanded you, saying, ‘You must not eat of it’: Cursed is the ground because of you— with pain will you eat of it all the days of your life.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourn are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life. Moreover, the days of the years of my life have not attained the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojourn.”

Esther 6:1

That night sleep deserted the king, so he ordered the book of the chronicles, the record of his reign, be brought in and read before the king.

Job 14:1

“A mortal born of woman, is of few days and full of turmoil.

Job 5:7

Yet man is born for trouble, as surely as sparks fly upward.

Psalm 127:2

In vain you rise up early and stay up late, eating the bread of toil— for He provides for His beloved ones even in their sleep.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me. My strength was drained as in the droughts of summer. Selah

Psalm 90:15

Gladden us for as many days as You have humbled us, as many years as we have seen misery.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I applied my heart to seek and examine by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a burdensome task God has given the sons of men to keep them occupied.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

For with much wisdom comes much grief, and whoever keeps increasing knowledge, increases heartache.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Yet when I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended to accomplish it, behold, it all was futile and chasing after the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

There is a grievous wrong that I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded by its owner to his own hurt,

Ecclesiastes 5:17

Behold, this is what I myself have seen. It is beneficial and good for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy all of his toil that he labors under the sun during the few days of his life that God has given him—for this is his reward.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to observe the activity that is done upon the earth (his eyes not seeing sleep either day or night),

Daniel 6:18

A stone was brought to block the mouth of the den. The king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signet of his nobles, so that nothing could be changed regarding Daniel.

Acts 14:22

They were strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to persevere in faith, and saying, “It is through many persecutions that we must enter the kingdom of God.”