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Ecclesiastes 2:23
For all his days [are] sorrows, and his labor grief; yes, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:23 · Webster Bible
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Ecclesiastes 2:23 in other translations
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
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.
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
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In context
20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor which I took under the sun.
21 For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not labored in it, shall he leave it [for] his portion. This also [is] vanity and a great evil.
22 For what hath man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, in which he hath labored under the sun?
23 For all his days [are] sorrows, and his labor grief; yes, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
24 [There is] nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and [that] he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God.
25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten [to it] more than I?
26 For [God] giveth to a man who [is] good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth toil, to gather, and to amass, that he may give to [him that is] good before God. This also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
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