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. Cross References Genesis 3:17 And to Adam He said: "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Job 5:7 Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward. Job 14:1 "Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. Psalm 127:2 In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat--for He gives sleep to His beloved. Ecclesiastes 1:13 And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them! Ecclesiastes 1:18 For with much wisdom comes much sorrow, and as knowledge grows, grief increases. Ecclesiastes 2:11 Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun. Ecclesiastes 5:17 Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger. Ecclesiastes 8:16 When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth--though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night-- Treasury of Scripture For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yes, his heart takes not rest in the night. This is also vanity. all Genesis 47:9 Job 5:7 Job 14:1 his heart Ecclesiastes 5:12 Esther 6:1 Job 7:13,14 |