Man {that is} born of a woman {is} of few days, and full of trouble. {few...: Heb. short of days}

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. {trouble: or, labour} {sparks...: Heb. the sons of the burning coal lift up to fly}

I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. {all...: or, every night}

When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

{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.

On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. {could...: Heb. the king's sleep fled away}

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.

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

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. {instruments...: or, table}

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. {sore: Heb. hand}

Make us glad according to the days {wherein} thou hast afflicted us, {and} the years {wherein} we have seen evil.

For in much wisdom {is} much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage {are} an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

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.

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

Man {that is} born of a woman {is} of few days, and full of trouble. {few...: Heb. short of days}

For in much wisdom {is} much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all {is} vanity.

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.

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. {to be...: or, to afflict them}

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:)

All {things} have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just {man} that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked {man} that prolongeth {his life} in his wickedness.