Ecclesiastes 3:9
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What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?What does the worker gain from his toil?
In other translations
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?What does the worker gain from his toil?
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Ecclesiastes 1:3What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?
- Proverbs 14:23In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
- Ecclesiastes 5:16And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?This too is a grievous evil: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?
- Ecclesiastes 2:11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
- Matthew 16:26For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
- Ecclesiastes 2:22-2322 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? 23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.22 For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun? 23 Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.
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