Ecclesiastes 8:16

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

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.

Cross References

Genesis 31:40

I was anguished in day and night with heat and frost, and sleep fled from mine eyes;

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;

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 1:14

I saw all things that be made under the sun, and lo! all things be vanity and torment of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I gave mine heart, that I should know prudence and doctrine, and errors and folly. And I knew that in these things also was travail and torment of spirit;

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 4:8

one there is, and he hath not a second; neither a son, nor a brother; and nevertheless he ceaseth not to travail, neither his eyes be filled with riches; neither he bethinketh him, and saith, To whom travail I, and deceive my soul in goods? In this also is vanity, and the worst torment.

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 7:25

I compassed all things with my soul, to know, and to behold, and seek wisdom, and reason, and to know the wickedness of a fool, and the error of unprudent men.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

for he knoweth not [the] things passed, and he may not know by any messenger [the] things to come.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

I beheld all these things, and I gave mine heart in all works, that be done under the sun. Sometime a man is lord of a man, to his evil.