Ecclesiastes 2:23
New International Version
23 All their days their work is grief and pain;(A) even at night their minds do not rest.(B) This too is meaningless.
Ecclesiastes 2:23
King James Version
23 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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Job 14:1
New International Version
Job 14:1
King James Version
14 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
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Job 5:7
New International Version
7 Yet man is born to trouble(A)
as surely as sparks fly upward.
Job 5:7
King James Version
7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
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Psalm 127:2
New International Version
Psalm 127:2
King James Version
2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
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Psalm 6:6-7
King James Version
6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
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Job 7:13-14
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Job 7:13-14
King James Version
13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints;
14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
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Acts 14:22
New International Version
22 strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith.(A) “We must go through many hardships(B) to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.
Acts 14:22
King James Version
22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
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Daniel 6:18
New International Version
18 Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night without eating(A) and without any entertainment being brought to him. And he could not sleep.(B)
Daniel 6:18
King James Version
18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.
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Ecclesiastes 5:12
New International Version
12 The sleep of a laborer is sweet,
whether they eat little or much,
but as for the rich, their abundance
permits them no sleep.(A)
Ecclesiastes 5:12
King James Version
12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
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Ecclesiastes 1:18
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Ecclesiastes 1:18
King James Version
18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
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Psalm 90:15
New International Version
15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen trouble.
Psalm 90:15
King James Version
15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
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Psalm 90:7-10
New International Version
7 We are consumed by your anger
and terrified by your indignation.
8 You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins(A) in the light of your presence.(B)
9 All our days pass away under your wrath;
we finish our years with a moan.(C)
10 Our days may come to seventy years,(D)
or eighty,(E) if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,(F)
for they quickly pass, and we fly away.(G)
Psalm 90:7-10
King James Version
7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
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Psalm 77:2-4
New International Version
Footnotes
- Psalm 77:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 9 and 15.
Psalm 77:2-4
King James Version
2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
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