Eclesiastés 2:23

23 Porque durante todos sus días su tarea es dolorosa y penosa; ni aun de noche descansa su corazón. También esto es vanidad.

Eclesiastés 2:23 Meaning and Commentary

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief
All his days are full of sorrows, of a variety of them; and all his affairs and transactions of life are attended with grief and trouble; not only the days of old age are evil ones, in which he can take no pleasure; or those times which exceed the common age of man, when he is got to fourscore years or more, and when his strength is labour and sorrow; but even all his days, be they fewer or more, from his youth upward, are all evil and full of trouble, ( Genesis 47:9 ) ( Job 14:1 ) ; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night;
which is appointed for rest and ease; and when laid down on his bed for it, as the word signifies; yet, either through an eager desire of getting wealth, or through anxious and distressing cares for the keeping it when gotten, he cannot sleep quietly and comfortably, his carking cares and anxious thoughts keep him waking; or, if he sleeps, his mind is distressed with dreams and frightful apprehensions of things, so that his sleep is not sweet and refreshing to him. This is also vanity;
or one of the vanities which belong to human life.

Eclesiastés 2:23 In-Context

21 Cuando hay un hombre que ha trabajado con sabiduría, con conocimiento y con destreza, y da su hacienda al que no ha trabajado en ella, esto también es vanidad y un gran mal.

22 Pues, ¿qué recibe el hombre de todo su trabajo y del esfuerzo de su corazón con que se afana bajo el sol?

23 Porque durante todos sus días su tarea es dolorosa y penosa; ni aun de noche descansa su corazón. También esto es vanidad.

24 Nada hay mejor para el hombre que comer y beber y decirse que su trabajo es bueno. Esto también yo he visto que es de la mano de Dios.

25 Porque ¿quién comerá y quién se alegrará sin El?