Ecclesiastes 2:23

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

All his days be full of sorrows and mischiefs, and by night he resteth not in soul; and whether this is not vanity?

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

Soothly God said to Adam, For thou heardest the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded to thee that thou shouldest not eat, the earth shall be cursed in thy work, that is, for thy sin; in travails thou shalt eat thereof in all the days of thy life;

Genesis 47:9

And he answered, The days of [the] pilgrimage of my life be few and evil, of an hundred and thirty years, and those [or they] have not come to the days of my fathers, in which they were pilgrims.

Esther 6:1

The king led that night without sleep, and he commanded the stories and the books of years of former times to be brought to him. And when those books were read in his presence,

Job 14:1

A man is born of a woman, and liveth short time, and he is full-filled with many wretchednesses.

Job 5:7

A man is born to labour, and a bird to flight.

Psalm 127:2

It is vain to you to rise before the light; rise ye after ye have set, that eat the bread of sorrow. When he shall give sleep to his loved;

Psalm 32:4

For by day and night thine hand was made grievous on me; I am turned in my wretchedness, while the thorn is set in.

Psalm 90:15

We were glad for the days in which thou madest us meek; for the years in which we saw evils.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

and I purposed in my soul to seek and ensearch wisely of all things, that be made under the sun. God gave this evil occupation to the sons of men, that they should be occupied therein.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

for in much wisdom is much indignation, and he that increaseth knowing, increaseth also travail.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

And when I had turned me to all the works which mine hands had made, and to the travails in which I had sweated in vain, I saw in all things vanity and torment of soul, and that nothing under [the] sun dwelleth.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

Sleep is sweet to him that worketh, whether he eat little either much; but the fullness of a rich man suffereth not him to sleep.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

In all the days of his life he ate in darknesses, and in many busynesses, and in neediness, and sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

And I setted mine heart to know wisdom, and to understand the parting, which is turned in earth. A man is, that by days and nights, taketh not sleep with his eyes.

Daniel 6:18

Then the king went into his house, and slept without supper, and meats were not brought before him; further-more and sleep went away from him.

Acts 14:22

confirming the souls of the disciples, and admonishing, that they should dwell in the faith, and said, That by many tribulations it behooveth us to enter into the kingdom of heavens.