Ecclesiastes 2:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³For 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 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Job 5:7
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
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.
Job 7:13-14
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; …
Psalms 6:6-7
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-26)

Business is a thing that wise men have pleasure in. They are in their element when they are in their business, and complain if they be out of business. They may sometimes be tired with their business, but they are not weary of it, nor willing to leave it off. Here therefore one would expect to have found the good that men should do, but Solomon tried this too; after a contemplative life and a volu…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 23)

23. The only fruit he has is, not only sorrows in his days, but all his days are sorrows, and his travail (not only has griefs connected with it, but is itself), grief.