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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Ecclesiastes 2:22 · 19 connections
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What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. …
End of linked passage: Ecclesiastes 5:11All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. …
End of linked passage: Ecclesiastes 6:8Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
Give us this day our daily bread.
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
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