World English Bible
Ecclesiastes 2:23
“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.”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 2
21
For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
22
For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?
23
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.
24
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
25
For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
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