Ecclesiastes 2:23

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Job 14:1 : 1 ¶ Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble.
  • Job 5:7 : 7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
  • Job 7:13-14 : 13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; 14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
  • Ps 127:2 : 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.
  • Eccl 1:18 : 18 For in much wisdom [is] much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
  • Eccl 5:12 : 12 The sleep of a labouring man [is] sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
  • Dan 6:18 : 18 ¶ Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, [and] exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
  • Esth 6:1 : 1 ¶ On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
  • Ps 6:6-7 : 6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. 7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
  • Ps 32:4 : 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
  • Ps 77:2-4 : 2 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. 3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. 4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
  • Ps 90:7-9 : 7 ¶ For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told]. 10 The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
  • Ps 90:15 : 15 Make us glad according to the days [wherein] thou hast afflicted us, [and] the years [wherein] we have seen evil.

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    86%

    17 ¶ Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

    18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

    19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This [is] also vanity.

    20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

    21 For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it [for] his portion. This also [is] vanity and a great evil.

    22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

  • Eccl 5:16-18
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    16 And this also [is] a sore evil, [that] in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

    17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and [he hath] much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

    18 ¶ Behold [that] which I have seen: [it is] good and comely [for one] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it [is] his portion.

  • Eccl 2:10-11
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    10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

    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.

  • Eccl 1:2-3
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    79%

    2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity.

    3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

  • Eccl 4:4
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    4 ¶ Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 4:7-8
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    7 ¶ Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

    8 There is one [alone], and [there is] not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet [is there] no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither [saith he], For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This [is] also vanity, yea, it [is] a sore travail.

  • Eccl 2:24-26
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    24 [There is] nothing better for a man, [than] that he should eat and drink, and [that] he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God.

    25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten [hereunto], more than I?

    26 For [God] giveth to a man that [is] good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to [him that is] good before God. This also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 1:13-14
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    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.

    14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 11:8
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    8 But if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh [is] vanity.

  • Eccl 4:16
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    16 [There is] no end of all the people, [even] of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 8:14-17
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    14 ¶ There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just [men], unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] vanity.

    15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

    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:)

    17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek [it] out, yet he shall not find [it]; yea further; though a wise [man] think to know [it], yet shall he not be able to find [it].

  • Eccl 6:7
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    7 ¶ All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8 ¶ Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all [is] vanity.

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22 Wherefore I perceive that [there is] nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that [is] his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    75%

    11 ¶ Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?

    12 For who knoweth what [is] good for man in [this] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

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    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.

  • Eccl 3:9-10
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    9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

    10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

  • Eccl 6:5
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    5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known [any thing]: this hath more rest than the other.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.

  • Job 14:22
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    22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

  • Eccl 9:9
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    9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that [is] thy portion in [this] life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

  • Job 7:3
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    3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

  • Eccl 6:9
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    9 Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 6:2
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    2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this [is] vanity, and it [is] an evil disease.

  • Eccl 3:12
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    12 I know that [there is] no good in them, but for [a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

  • Eccl 5:20
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    20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart.

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3 This [is] an evil among all [things] that are done under the sun, that [there is] one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.

  • Eccl 3:19
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    19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is] vanity.

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    23 Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.

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    17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 2:15
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    15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also [is] vanity.