| Verse | Translation | Text |
| Ec 2:23 | King James | For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. |
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| The only fruit he has is, not only sorrows in his days, but all his days are sorrows, and his travail (not only has griefs connected with it, but is itself), grief. |