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Ecclesiastes 2:23
Ecclesiastes 2:23 is verse 23 of Ecclesiastes chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.
King James Version
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, 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.
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Ecclesiastes 2:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible
21 When there is a man who has labored with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and he must give his portion to a man who has not worked for it, this too is futile and a great evil.
22 For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?
23 Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.
24 Nothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work. I have also seen that this is from the hand of God.
25 For apart from Him, who can eat and who can find enjoyment?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 47:9“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
Job 5:7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
Psalms 90:7For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
Psalms 90:8You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
Psalms 90:9For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
Psalms 90:10The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
Psalms 90:15Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.
Psalms 127:2In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat— for He gives sleep to His beloved.
Ecclesiastes 5:12The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep.
Esther 6:1That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.
Job 7:13When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
Job 7:14then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
Psalms 6:6I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
Psalms 6:7My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.
Psalms 32:4For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
Psalms 77:2In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.
Psalms 77:3I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah
Psalms 77:4You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.
Daniel 6:18Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting. No entertainment was brought before him, and sleep fled from him.
Acts 14:22strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.