Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.(Ecclesiastes 2:20)
For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.(Ecclesiastes 2:21)
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?(Ecclesiastes 2:22)
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.(Ecclesiastes 2:24)
For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?(Ecclesiastes 2:25)
For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.(Ecclesiastes 2:26)
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Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Cross Reference
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. (Psalm 6:6)
On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. (Esther 6:1)
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. (Psalm 32:4)
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. (Psalm 90:15)
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. (Ecclesiastes 5:12)
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints; (Job 7:13)
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. (Job 5:7)
Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. (Job 14:1)
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. (Psalm 90:7)
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. (Ecclesiastes 1:18)
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. (Psalm 77:2)
Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. (Acts 14:22)
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. (Genesis 47:9)
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him. (Daniel 6:18)
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. (Psalm 127:2)