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All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.King James Bible
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh 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.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.Ecclesiastes 2:23 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleHis days are sorrows - What a picture of human life where the heart is not filled with the peace and love of God! All his days are sorrows; all his labors griefs; all his nights restless; for he has no portion but merely what earth can give; and that is embittered by the labor of acquisition, and the disappointment in the using. This is also vanity - Emptiness of good and substantial misery. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge all 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. his heart 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... Ecclesiastes 2:23 Parallel Commentaries
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Genesis 3:17 To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
Job 5:7 Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
Job 14:1 "Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble.
Psalm 127:2 In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat-- for he grants sleep to those he loves.
Ecclesiastes 1:13 I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind!
Ecclesiastes 1:18 For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes 2:11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.
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