And he said to the man, ‘Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, “Do not eat from it”: The ground is cursed because of you. You will eat from it by means of painful labour all the days of your life.
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For all his days are filled with grief, and his occupation is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For all his days are but pain and sorrow, and his work is a vexation and grief; his mind takes no rest even at night. This is also vanity (emptiness, falsity, and futility)! American Standard Version (1901) For all his days are but sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity. Common English Bible All their days are pain, and their work is aggravation; even at night, their hearts don’t find rest. This too is pointless. Catholic Public Domain Version All his days have been filled with sorrows and hardships; neither does he rest his mind, even in the night. And is this not emptiness? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version All his days axe full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity? |
And he said to the man, ‘Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, “Do not eat from it”: The ground is cursed because of you. You will eat from it by means of painful labour all the days of your life.
Jacob said to Pharaoh, ‘My pilgrimage has lasted for 130 years. My years have been few and hard, and they have not reached the years of my ancestors during their pilgrimages.’
That night sleep escaped the king, so he ordered the book recording daily events to be brought and read to the king.
I applied my mind to examine and explore through wisdom all that is done under heaven. God has given people this miserable task to keep them occupied.
For with much wisdom is much sorrow; as knowledge increases, grief increases.
When I considered all that I had accomplished and what I had laboured to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind. , There was nothing to be gained under the sun.
The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich permits him no sleep.
What is more, he eats in darkness all his days, with much frustration, sickness, and anger.
When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the activity that is done on the earth (even though one’s eyes do not close in sleep day or night),
Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting. No diversions were brought to him, and he could not sleep.
strengthening the disciples by encouraging them to continue in the faith and by telling them, ‘It is necessary to go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.’