Ecclesiastes 2:23
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.
Cross References
Genesis 3:17
And to Adam He said: "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of 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
"Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

Psalm 127:2
In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat--for He gives sleep to His beloved.

Ecclesiastes 1:13
And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!

Ecclesiastes 1:18
For with much wisdom comes much sorrow, and as knowledge grows, grief increases.

Ecclesiastes 2:11
Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:17
Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.

Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth--though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night--


Treasury of Scripture
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yes, his heart takes not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

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Genesis 47:9
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.



Job 5:7
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.



Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

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Ecclesiastes 5:12
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.



Esther 6:1
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.



Job 7:13,14
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; …


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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