Ecclesiastes Chapter 2 verse 23 Holy Bible
For all his days are `but' sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.
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All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.
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For all his days are sorrows, and his travail vexation: even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.
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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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For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
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For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also `is' vanity.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 23. - All his days are sorrow, and his travail grief (comp. Ecclesiastes 5:16, 17). These are the real results of his lifelong efforts. All his days are pains and sorrows, bring trouble with them, and all his labor ends in grief. "Sorrows" and "grief" are pretreated respectively of "days" and "travail." Abstract nouns are often so used. Thus Ecclesiastes 10:12, "The words of a wise man's mouth are grace." The free-thinkers in Wisd. 2:1 complain that life is short and tedious (λυπηρὸς). Yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. He cannot sleep for thinking over his plans and hopes and disappointments. Not for him is the sweet sleep of the laboring man, who does his day's work, earns his repose, and frets not about the future. On the one hand care, on the ether satiety, murder sleep, and make the night torment.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) The fact that the wise man must surrender his acquisitions exhibits the inutility of the painful toil by which he has gained them.