Ecclesiastes 2:23
"For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity."
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- Job 14:1
"Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble."
Read in chapter → - Job 5:7
"Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 6:6
"I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears."
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - Job 7:13
"When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 77:2
"In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 5:12
"The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 47:9
"And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 1:18
"For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 32:4
"For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah."
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