Ecclesiastes 8:16
"When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)"
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- 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."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 1:13
"And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith."
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 → - Ecclesiastes 8:9
"All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 31:40
"Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 8:7
"For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?"
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 4:8
"There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 7:25
"I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:"
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."
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