Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to understand the distraction that is upon earth: for there are some that day and night take no sleep with their eyes. when I Ecclesiastes 8:7 Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger. Ecclesiastes 7:25 I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool, and the error of the imprudent: there is that Ecclesiastes 2:23 All his days are full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity? Ecclesiastes 4:8 There is but one, and he hath not a second, no child, no brother, and yet he ceaseth not to labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches, neither doth he reflect, saying: For whom do I labour, and defraud my soul of good things? in this also is vanity, and a grievous vexation. Ecclesiastes 5:12 Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat little or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. Genesis 31:40 Day and night was I parched with heat, and with frost, and sleep departed from my eyes. Psalm 127:2 It is vain for you to rise before light, rise ye after you have sitten, you that eat the bread of sorrow. When he shall give sleep to his beloved, Context God's Ways are Mysterious…15Therefore I commended mirth, because there was no good for a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and be merry, and that he should take nothing else with him of his labour in the days of his life, which God hath given him under the sun. 16And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to understand the distraction that is upon earth: for there are some that day and night take no sleep with their eyes.17And I understood that man can find no reason of all those works of God that are done under the sun: and the more he shall labour to seek, so much the less shall he find: yea, though the wise man shall say, that he knoweth it, he shall not be able to find it.… Cross References Ecclesiastes 1:13 And I proposed in my mind to seek and search out wisely concerning all things that are done under the sun. This painful occupation hath God given to the children of men, to be exercised therein. Ecclesiastes 1:14 I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity, and vexation of spirit. Ecclesiastes 2:23 All his days are full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity? Lexicon Whenכַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר (ka·’ă·šer) Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that I applied נָתַ֤תִּי (nā·ṯat·tî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's Hebrew 5414: To give, put, set my mind לִבִּי֙ (lib·bî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's Hebrew 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre to know לָדַ֣עַת (lā·ḏa·‘aṯ) Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's Hebrew 3045: To know wisdom חָכְמָ֔ה (ḥāḵ·māh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 2451: Wisdom and to observe וְלִרְאוֹת֙ (wə·lir·’ō·wṯ) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's Hebrew 7200: To see the activity הָ֣עִנְיָ֔ן (hā·‘in·yān) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 6045: Ado, employment, an affair that אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that one does נַעֲשָׂ֖ה (na·‘ă·śāh) Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make on עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against the earth— הָאָ֑רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land though כִּ֣י (kî) Conjunction Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction his eyes בְּעֵינָ֖יו (bə·‘ê·nāw) Preposition-b | Noun - cdc | third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 5869: An eye, a fountain do not אֵינֶ֥נּוּ (’ê·nen·nū) Adverb | third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 369: A non-entity, a negative particle see רֹאֶֽה׃ (rō·’eh) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 7200: To see sleep שֵׁנָ֕ה (šê·nāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 8142: Sleep day בַּיּוֹם֙ (bay·yō·wm) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day or night— וּבַלַּ֔יְלָה (ū·ḇal·lay·lāh) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 3915: A twist, night, adversity Additional Translations When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the activity that one does on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep day or night—When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes:) When I applied my 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), Whereupon I set my heart to know wisdom, and to perceive the trouble that was wrought upon the earth: for there is that neither by day nor night sees sleep with his eyes. When I applied my 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), 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:) When I applied my 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:) When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes), When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night), Jump to Previous Applied Business Earth Eyes Heart Labor Mind Night Observe One's Sleep Task WisdomJump to Next Applied Business Earth Eyes Heart Labor Mind Night Observe One's Sleep Task WisdomExternal Links Ecclesiastes 8:16 NIVEcclesiastes 8:16 NLT Ecclesiastes 8:16 ESV Ecclesiastes 8:16 NASB Ecclesiastes 8:16 ASV Ecclesiastes 8:16 Bible Apps Ecclesiastes 8:16 Biblia Paralela Ecclesiastes 8:16 Chinese Bible Ecclesiastes 8:16 French Bible Ecclesiastes 8:16 German Bible Alphabetical: even and applied been day done earth eyes gave has heart his I know labor man's mind my never night night not observe on one or see seeing should sleep task the though to When which wisdom OT Poetry: Ecclesiastes 8:16 When I applied my heart to know (Ecclesiast. 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