Ecclesiastes 2:23

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The 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.

In Context

22For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he bath been tormented under the sun?

24Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God.

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Cross References

Esther 6:1That night the king passed without sleep, and he commanded the histories and chronicles of former times to be brought him. And when they were reading them before him,

Job 7:13If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved speaking with myself on my couch:

Psalms 6:6For there is no one in death, that is mindful of thee: and who shall confess to thee in hell?

Psalms 77:2I cried to the Lord with my voice; to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.

Psalms 90:15We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for the years in which we have seen evils.

Ecclesiastes 1:18Because In much wisdom there is much indignation: and he that addeth knowledge, addeth also labour.

Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 2:18-26

Sources of Dissatisfaction; The Cheerful Use of Abundance. 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… Read the whole commentary →

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