Ecclesiastes 2:23

¹“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

⁷but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

²It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

¹³When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint,’ ¹⁴then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,

⁶I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears. ⁷My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

¹⁸For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

⁹Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

¹²The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

⁴For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

¹On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.