Ecclesiastes 2:23

Is There Real Happiness In Life?

²² For what does a man get in all his labor and in his striving with which he labors under the sun? ²³ Because all his days his task is painful and grievous; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is vanity. ²⁴ There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.

All Day Long

All the Days of His Life

No

Job 5:7

For man is born for trouble,
As sparks fly upward.

Job 14:1

“Man, who is born of woman,
Is short-lived and full of turmoil.

Psalm 127:2

It is vain for you to rise up early,
To retire late,
To eat the bread of painful labors;
For He gives to His beloved even in his sleep.

Genesis 47:9

So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”

Esther 6:1

During that night the king could not sleep so he gave an order to bring the book of records, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.

Job 7:13-14

“If I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
My couch will ease my complaint,’

Psalm 6:6-7

I am weary with my sighing;
Every night I make my bed swim,
I dissolve my couch with my tears.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me;
My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. Selah.

Psalm 77:2-4

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord;
In the night my hand was stretched out without weariness;
My soul refused to be comforted.

Psalm 90:7-10

For we have been consumed by Your anger
And by Your wrath we have been dismayed.

Psalm 90:15

Make us glad according to the days You have afflicted us,
And the years we have seen evil.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

Because in much wisdom there is much grief, and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

The sleep of the working man is pleasant, whether he eats little or much; but the full stomach of the rich man does not allow him to sleep.

Daniel 6:18

Then the king went off to his palace and spent the night fasting, and no entertainment was brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

Acts 14:22

strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying, “Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.”