Ecclesiastes 2:23
“For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.”
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.
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
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.
For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
Cross-References
“Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.”
“Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.”
“For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.”
“Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.”
“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.”