Ecclesiastes 2:23

In 11 translations

BSB

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.

KJV

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

WEB

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

ASV

For all his days are but sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.

LSV

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart has not lain down; this [is] also vanity.

YLT

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also [is] vanity.

DBY

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail vexation: even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.

DRC

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

GNV

For all his dayes are sorowes, and his trauaile griefe: his heart also taketh not rest in the night: which also is vanitie.

JPS

For all his days are pains, and his occupation vexation; yea, even in the night his heart taketh not rest. This also is vanity.

LXXE

For all his days are days of sorrows, and vexation of spirit is his; in the night also his heart rests not. This is also vanity.

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Original-language editions

WLC

כִּ֧י כָל־יָמָ֣יו מַכְאֹבִ֗ים וָכַ֨עַס֙ עִנְיָנ֔וֹ גַּם־בַּלַּ֖יְלָה לֹא־שָׁכַ֣ב לִבּ֑וֹ גַּם־זֶ֖ה הֶ֥בֶל הֽוּא׃

LXX-Br

Ὅτι πᾶσαι αἱ ἡμέραι αὐτοῦ ἀλγημάτων καὶ θυμοῦ περισπασμὸς αὐτοῦ, καί γε ἐν νυκτὶ οὐ κοιμᾶται ἡ καρδία αὐτοῦ· καί γε τοῦτο ματαιότης ἐστίν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
• Job 5:7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
• Job 7:13–14When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint, then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
• Psalms 6:6–7I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears. My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.
• Psalms 127:2In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat— for He gives sleep to His beloved.
• Ecclesiastes 1:18For with much wisdom comes much sorrow, and as knowledge grows, grief increases.
• Psalms 90:15Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.
• Psalms 90:7–10For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath. You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence. For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a…
• Daniel 6:18Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting. No entertainment was brought before him, and sleep fled from him.
• Acts 14:22strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.
• Psalms 77:2–4In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted. I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah You…
• Genesis 47:9“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
• Psalms 32:4For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
• Esther 6:1That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.
• Ecclesiastes 5:12The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep.

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