Bible Verses Like Ecclesiastes 8:16

“When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)”

 

Bible verses related to Ecclesiastes 8:16 (similar cross-references)


Psalms 127:2 - 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.   (Verses like Psalms 127:2)

Ecclesiastes 1:13 - And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.   (Verses like Ecclesiastes 1:13)

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.   (Verses like Ecclesiastes 2:23)

Genesis 31:40 - Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.   (Verses like Genesis 31:40)

Ecclesiastes 4:8 - 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.   (Verses like Ecclesiastes 4:8)

Ecclesiastes 5:12 - 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.   (Verses like Ecclesiastes 5:12)

Ecclesiastes 7:25 - I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:   (Verses like Ecclesiastes 7:25)

Ecclesiastes 8:7 - For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?   (Verses like Ecclesiastes 8:7)

Ecclesiastes 8:9 - All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.   (Verses like Ecclesiastes 8:9)