Ecclesiastes 2:23
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart has not lain down; this [is] also vanity.
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Esther 6:1On that night the sleep of the king has fled away, and he commands to bring in the scroll of memorials of the chronicles, and they are read before the king,
Job 7:13When I said, My bed comforts me, || In my talking He takes away my couch.
Psalms 6:6I have been weary with my sighing, || I meditate [on] my bed through all the night, || I dissolve my couch with my tear.
Psalms 77:2I sought the Lord in a day of my distress, || My hand has been spread out by night, || And it does not cease, || My soul has refused to be comforted.
Psalms 90:15Cause us to rejoice according to the days || Wherein You have afflicted us, || The years we have seen evil.
Ecclesiastes 1:18for in abundance of wisdom [is] abundance of sadness, and he who adds knowledge adds pain.”
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 →