Ecclesiastes 2:23 Cross References - CLV

²³ For all his days his experience is filled with pains and vexation; Even in the night his heart will not lie down; This too, it is vanity."

⁹ And saying is Jacob to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my life's sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil come to be the days of the years of my life, and they do not overtake the days of the years of the life of my forefathers in the days of their sojournings.

¹ During that night, sleep flit away from the king, and he said to bring the memorial scroll of records of the days; and they were read before the king.

⁷ But humanity is born to misery, Even as sparks of burning coal shoot aloft to fly.

¹³ For I said, My cot shall comfort me; My bed shall bear away my concern;" ¹⁴ Yet You have dismayed me with dreams, And You have frightened me with visions.

¹ A human, born of a woman, Is short of days and surfeited with disturbance.

⁶ I am weary with my sighing; Through all the night I inundate my couch; I saturate my cot with my tears. ⁷ My eye is exhausted from vexation; It shifts about because of all my foes.

⁴ For by day and night, Your hand was heavy upon me; My freshness was turned into the droughts of summer. {Interlude{ "

² In the day of my distress I sought after Yahweh; At night my hand was stirred up in prayer, And it would not give way; My soul refused to be consoled." ³ I remembered Elohim, yet I was discomfited; I meditated, yet my spirit drooped. {Interlude{ " ⁴ You held open the guardians of my eyes; I was agitated, and I could not speak."

⁷ For we are consumed by Your anger, And by Your fury are we filled with panic." ⁸ You have set our depravities in front of You, Our obscured deeds in the full light of Your face." ⁹ Indeed all our days turn around before Your rage; We finish our years like a mumble. ¹⁰ The days of our years, in them are seventy years, And if by mastery there are eighty years, Yet even in their heyday is toil and sorrow, For it is sheared off hurriedly, and we fly away."

¹⁵ Make us rejoice according to the days You humbled us, The years we have seen evil."

² Futile is it for you to rise early, And stay up late, Eating the bread of grievous labor; Yet so is He giving to His beloved in their sleep."

¹⁸ For in much wisdom is much vexation, And he who adds knowledge adds pain."

¹² The sleep of the servant is sweet, Whether he eats little or much; Yet the surfeiting of the rich, it does not permit him to sleep."

¹⁸ Then the king departs to his palace and remains in his house, fasting. Diversions are not brought before him, even though his sleep flees from him. Yet Eloah closes the mouths of the lions and they do not harm Daniel."

²² establishing the souls of the disciples, besides entreating them to remain in the faith and saying that, "Through many afflictions must we be entering into the kingdom of God."