King James Version
Ecclesiastes 2:23 in the King James Version says “For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.” — study this verse from Ecclesiastes chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.”
Ecclesiastes 2:23 · KJV
For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil. leave: Heb. give
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. should make: or, delight his senses
For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“For all his days”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“and his travail”
H6045ado, i.e., (generally) employment or (specifically) an affair
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“in the night”
H3915properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e., night; figuratively, adversity
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“taketh not rest”
H7901to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
“yea his heart”
H3820the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the center of anything
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“This is also vanity”
H1892emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
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