Verse 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:)

Referenced Verses

• 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 1:13 : 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.
• Eccl 2:23 : 23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
• Eccl 4:8 : 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 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.
• Eccl 7:25 : 25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
• Eccl 8:7 : 7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
• Eccl 8:9 : 9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
• Gen 31:40 : 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.