business. travail.
for also there is, &c.. how that one doth not see sleep with his eyes by day or by night. Figure of speech Catachresis (App-6).
Related Commentaries of Ecclesiastes 8:16
Ecclesiastes 8:16
16 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:)