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.
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. 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? |
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.
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.”
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.
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.
For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me. My strength was drained as in the droughts of summer. Selah
Gladden us for as many days as You have humbled us, as many years as we have seen misery.
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.
For with much wisdom comes much grief, and whoever keeps increasing knowledge, increases heartache.
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.
There is a grievous wrong that I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded by its owner to his own hurt,
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.
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),
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.
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.”