Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Because all his days his task is painful and
King James Version
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
Holman Bible
For all his days are filled with grief, and his occupation is sorrowful;
International Standard Version
Indeed, all of his days are filled with sorrow, and his struggles bring grief. In fact, his mind remains restless throughout the night. This is pointless, too!
A Conservative Version
For all his days are [but] sorrows, and his travail is grief, yea, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
For all his days his work is painful and sorrowful; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is vanity (worthless).
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail vexation: even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.
Julia Smith Translation
For all his days pains, and vexation, his labor; also in the night his heart rested not Also this it is vanity.
King James 2000
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart takes not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
Lexham Expanded Bible
All his days [are] painful, his labor [brings] grief, and his heart cannot rest at night. This also [is] vanity!
Modern King James verseion
For all his days are sorrows, and his labor sadness; yea, his heart does not take rest in the night. This is also vanity.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
but heaviness, sorrow and disquietness all the days of his life? Insomuch that his heart cannot rest in the night. Is not this also a vain thing?
NET Bible
For all day long his work produces pain and frustration, and even at night his mind cannot relax! This also is futile!
New Heart English Bible
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.
The Emphasized Bible
For, all his days, are pains, and, vexatious, is his employment, even in the night, his heart lieth not down, - even this, was, vanity.
Webster
For all his days are sorrows, and his labor grief; yes, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
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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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 2:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Is There Real Happiness In Life?
22
For what does man have of all his labour and of the vexation of his heart in which he has laboured under the sun?
23 Because all his days his task is painful and
Names
Cross References
Job 5:7
yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
Psalm 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to come home late, to eat the bread of sorrows, because he shall give his beloved sleep.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one 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.
Esther 6:1
On that night the king could not sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, and they were read before the king.
Job 7:13-14
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
Psalm 6:6-7
I am weary with my groaning; all the night I flood my bed; I water my couch with my tears.
Psalm 32:4
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my green growth is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
Psalm 77:2-4
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; my sore bled in the night and ceased not; my soul refused to be comforted.
Psalm 90:7-10
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath we are troubled.
Psalm 90:15
Make us glad according to the days in which thou hast afflicted us and the years in which we have seen evil.
Ecclesiastes 1:18
For in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of the servant is sweet whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Daniel 6:18
Then the king went to his palace and lay down without eating; neither were instruments of music brought before him, and his sleep fled from him.
Acts 14:22
confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to remain in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.