Ecclesiastes 5:17

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

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

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;

1 Kings 17:12

And she answered, Thy Lord God liveth, for I have no bread, no but as much of meal in a pot, as a fist[ful] may take, and a little of oil in a vessel; lo! I gather two sticks, that I enter, and make it to me, and to my son, that we eat, and die.

2 Kings 1:2

And Ahaziah felled [or fell] through the alures, [or windows] or lattice of his solar, which he had in Samaria, and was made sick; and he sent messengers, and said to them, Go ye, and counsel with Baalzebub, [the] god of Ekron, whether I may live after this sickness of me.

2 Kings 1:6

And they answered to him, A man met us, and said to us, Go ye, turn ye again to the king, that sent you; and ye shall say to him, The Lord saith these things, Whether for God was not in Israel, thou sendest, that Baalzebub, [the] god of Ekron, be counselled? Therefore thou shalt not go down off the bed, on which thou ascendedest [or wentest upon], but thou shalt die by death.

2 Kings 5:27

but also the leprosy of Naaman shall cleave to thee, and to thy seed without end. And Gehazi went out from him leprous as snow.

Job 21:25

And another man dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and without any riches.

Psalm 102:9

For I ate ashes as bread; and I meddled [or mingled] my drink with weeping.

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 39:6

Nevertheless a man passeth in an image; but also he is troubled vainly. He treasureth; and he know not, to whom he shall gather those things.

Psalm 78:33

And the days of them failed in vanity; and the years of them failed with haste.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

and all things which mine eyes desired, I denied not to them; neither I refrained mine heart, that not it used all lust, and delighted itself in these things which I had made ready; and I deemed this my part, if I used my travail.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

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

Ecclesiastes 2:24

Whether it is not better to eat and drink, and to show to his soul [the] goods of his travails? and this thing is of the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In a good day use thou goods, and before eschew thou an evil day; for God made so this day as that day, that a man find not just complainings against him.

Acts 12:23

And anon an angel of the Lord smote him, for he had not given honour to God; and he was wasted of worms, and died.