Ecclesiastes 8:16
Ecclesiastes · Old Testament · Chapter 8
“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:)”Ecclesiastes 8:16
What Does Ecclesiastes 8:16 Mean?
Ecclesiastes 8:16 is found in the book of Ecclesiastes, chapter 8, verse 16 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 16 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (16)
These passages are connected to Ecclesiastes 8:16 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
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.”Proverbs 2:2“So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;”Psalms 121:4“Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.”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.”Ecclesiastes 9:13“This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:”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.”Genesis 31:40“Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.”Job 28:13“Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.”Proverbs 22:17“Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.”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 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 7:25“I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:”Ecclesiastes 8:7“For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?”Ecclesiastes 8:9“All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.”Luke 6:30“Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.”Ecclesiastes 9:1“For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.”
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