Ecclesiastes 2:23

23 All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 2:23 in Other Translations

KJV
23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
ESV
23 For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.
NLT
23 Their days of labor are filled with pain and grief; even at night their minds cannot rest. It is all meaningless.
MSG
23 Pain and grief from dawn to dusk. Never a decent night's rest. Nothing but smoke.
CSB
23 For all his days are filled with grief, and his occupation is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 2:23 In-Context

21 For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune.
22 What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?
23 All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.
24 A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God,
25 for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?

Cross References 2

  • 1. Job 5:7; Job 14:1; S Ecclesiastes 1:18
  • 2. S Genesis 3:17; S Job 7:2
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