Ecclesiastes 2:23
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For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yes, his heart takes not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

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Genesis 47:9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years...

Job 5:7 Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Job 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

Psalm 90:7-10, 15 For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled...

Psalm 127:2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep.

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Ecclesiastes 5:12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

Esther 6:1 On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles...

Job 7:13, 14 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints...

Psalm 6:6, 7 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears...

Psalm 32:4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

Psalm 77:2-4 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted...

Daniel 6:18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of music brought before him...

Acts 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith...

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
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.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Because all his days his task is painful and grievous; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is vanity.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Indeed, all of his days are filled with sorrow, and his struggles bring grief. In fact, his mind remains restless throughout the night. This is pointless, too!

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart takes not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

American King James Version
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yes, his heart takes not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All his days axe full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity?

Darby Bible Translation
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail vexation: even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
For all his days are sorrows, and his labor grief; yes, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

World English Bible
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

Young's Literal Translation
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also is vanity.

Genesis 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;


Job 5:7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Psalm 127:2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Ecclesiastes 1:13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
Ecclesiastes 1:18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 2:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 5:17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
Ecclesiastes 8:16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

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. —HCSB

Because all his days his task is painful and grievous; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is vanity. —NASB

For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. —KJV


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Full Grief Grievous Heart Labor Mind Night Occupation Pain Painful Pains Purpose Rest Sadness Sorrow Sorrows Task Travail Vanity Vexation Work

Full Grief Grievous Heart Labor Mind Night Occupation Pain Painful Pains Purpose Rest Sadness Sorrow Sorrows Task Travail Vanity Vexation Work
Ecclesiastes Chapter 2 Verse 23

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