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Ecclesiastes 2:23

Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 2:23 BSB

Ecclesiastes 2:23 has 15 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Job 14:1 (9 votes) and Job 5:7 (7 votes). 21 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Genesis 3 to Acts 14.

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Which verses does Ecclesiastes 2:23 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Job 14:19 votes

    “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

  2. Job 5:77 votes

    Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

  3. Job 7:13–143 votes

    When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint, then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

  4. Psalm 6:6–73 votes

    I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears. My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.

  5. Psalm 127:23 votes

    In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.

  6. Genesis 47:92 votes

    “My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

  7. Esther 6:12 votes

    That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.

  8. Psalm 32:42 votes

    For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

  9. Psalm 77:2–42 votes

    In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted. I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah …

  10. Psalm 90:7–102 votes

    For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath. You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence. …

  11. Psalm 90:152 votes
  12. Ecclesiastes 1:182 votes

    For with much wisdom comes much sorrow, and as knowledge grows, grief increases.

  13. Ecclesiastes 5:122 votes
  14. Daniel 6:182 votes
  15. Acts 14:222 votes

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 2:23?

The 10 strongest of 21.