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Ecclesiastes 2

Eccl. 2:23 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For all his days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
are sorrows
mak'ob (Hebrew #4341)
also (feminine Isaiah 53:3) makfobah {mak-o-baw'}; from 3510; anguish or (figuratively) affliction
KJV usage: grief, pain, sorrow.
Pronounce: mak-obe'
Origin: sometimes makcowb {mak-obe'}
a, and his travail
`inyan (Hebrew #6045)
ado, i.e. (generally) employment or (specifically) an affair
KJV usage: business, travail.
Pronounce: in-yawn'
Origin: from 6031
grief
ka`ac (Hebrew #3708)
or (in Job) kaoas {kah'-as}; from 3707; vexation: -anger, angry, grief, indignation, provocation, provoking, X sore, sorrow, spite, wrath.
Pronounce: kah'-as
; yea, his heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
taketh not rest
shakab (Hebrew #7901)
to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
KJV usage: X at all, cast down, ((lover-))lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to sleep, still with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.
Pronounce: shaw-kab'
Origin: a primitive root
c in the night
layil (Hebrew #3915)
also laylah {lah'- yel-aw}; from the same as 3883; properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
KJV usage: ((mid-))night (season).
Pronounce: lah'-yil
Origin: or (Isa. 21:11) leyl {lale}
. This is also vanity
hebel (Hebrew #1892)
from 1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
KJV usage: X altogether, vain, vanity.
Pronounce: heh'bel
Origin: or (rarely in the abs.) habel {hab-ale'}
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Job 5:7• 7For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards. (Job 5:7)
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Job 14:1• 1Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. (Job 14:1)
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Acts 14:22• 22establishing the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to abide in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God. (Acts 14:22)
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Eccl. 8:16• 16When I applied my 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), (Eccl. 8:16)
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Psa. 127:2• 2It is vain for you to rise up early, to lie down late, to eat the bread of sorrows: so to his beloved one he giveth sleep. (Psa. 127:2)

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Cross References

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Gen. 47:9• 9And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning. (Gen. 47:9)
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Job 5:7• 7For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards. (Job 5:7)
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Job 14:1• 1Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. (Job 14:1)
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Psa. 90:7‑10,15• 7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled.
 8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
 9For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a passing thought.
 10The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
 15Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, according to the years wherein we have seen evil. (Psa. 90:7‑10,15)
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Psa. 127:2• 2It is vain for you to rise up early, to lie down late, to eat the bread of sorrows: so to his beloved one he giveth sleep. (Psa. 127:2)
his heart.
Eccl. 5:12• 12The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth not suffer him to sleep. (Eccl. 5:12)
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Esther 6:1• 1On that night sleep fled from the king. And he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. (Esther 6:1)
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Job 7:13‑14• 13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
 14Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions; (Job 7:13‑14)
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Psa. 6:6‑7• 6I am wearied with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I dissolve my couch with my tears.
 7Mine eye wasteth away through grief; it hath grown old because of all mine oppressors. (Psa. 6:6‑7)
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Psa. 32:4• 4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah. (Psa. 32:4)
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Psa. 77:2‑4• 2In the day of my trouble, I sought the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; my soul refused to be comforted.
 3I remembered God, and I moaned; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
 4Thou holdest open mine eyelids; I am full of disquiet and cannot speak. (Psa. 77:2‑4)
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Dan. 6:18• 18Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were concubines brought before him; and his sleep fled from him. (Dan. 6:18)
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Acts 14:22• 22establishing the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to abide in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God. (Acts 14:22)

J. N. Darby Translation

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