Ecclesiastes 2:23
Ecclesiastes · Old Testament · Chapter 2
“For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.”Ecclesiastes 2:23
What Does Ecclesiastes 2:23 Mean?
Ecclesiastes 2:23 is found in the book of Ecclesiastes, chapter 2, verse 23 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Ecclesiastes 2:23 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Job 14:1“Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.”Ecclesiastes 1:18“For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.”Job 5:7“Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.”Ecclesiastes 1:2“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.”Ecclesiastes 4:8“There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.”Ecclesiastes 8:16“When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)”Job 7:13“When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;”Psalms 6:6“I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.”Psalms 127:2“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.”Ecclesiastes 1:13“And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.”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.”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.”Psalms 32:4“For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.”Psalms 77:2“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.”Psalms 90:7“For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.”Psalms 90:15“Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.”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.”Ecclesiastes 7:15“All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.”Daniel 6:18“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.”Acts 14:22“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.”
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