Ecclesiastes 2:23 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 2:23

23: Their days of labor are filled with pain and grief; even at night they cannot rest. It is all utterly meaningless.

Job 14:1

  1. "How frail is humanity! How short is life, and how full of trouble!

Job 5:7

  1. People are born for trouble as predictably as sparks fly upward from a fire.

Job 7:13

  1. If I think, `My bed will comfort me, and I will try to forget my misery with sleep,'
  2. you shatter me with dreams. You terrify me with visions.

Psalms 6:6

  1. I am worn out from sobbing. Every night tears drench my bed; my pillow is wet from weeping.
  2. My vision is blurred by grief; my eyes are worn out because of all my enemies.

Psalms 127:2

  1. It is useless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously working for food to eat; for God gives rest to his loved ones.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

  1. For the greater my wisdom, the greater my grief. To increase knowledge only increases sorrow.

Psalms 90:7

  1. We wither beneath your anger; we are overwhelmed by your fury.
  2. You spread out our sins before you--our secret sins--and you see them all.
  3. We live our lives beneath your wrath. We end our lives with a groan.
  4. Seventy years are given to us! Some may even reach eighty. But even the best of these years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we are gone.

Acts 14:22

  1. where they strengthened the believers. They encouraged them to continue in the faith, reminding them that they must enter into the Kingdom of God through many tribulations.

Psalms 90:15

  1. Give us gladness in proportion to our former misery! Replace the evil years with good.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

  1. People who work hard sleep well, whether they eat little or much. But the rich are always worrying and seldom get a good night's sleep.

Esther 6:1

  1. That night the king had trouble sleeping, so he ordered an attendant to bring the historical records of his kingdom so they could be read to him.

Daniel 6:18

  1. Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night fasting. He refused his usual entertainment and couldn't sleep at all that night.

Genesis 47:9

  1. Jacob replied, "I have lived for 130 hard years, but I am still not nearly as old as many of my ancestors."

Psalms 77:2

  1. When I was in deep trouble, I searched for the Lord. All night long I pray, with hands lifted toward heaven, pleading. There can be no joy for me until he acts.
  2. I think of God, and I moan, overwhelmed with longing for his help.
  3. You don't let me sleep. I am too distressed even to pray!

Psalms 32:4

  1. Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat.
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