Ecclesiastes 3:9 “What does the worker gain from his toil?”

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What does the worker gain from his toil?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

World English Bible

What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

American Standard Version

What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?

Geneva Bible 1599

What profite hath hee that worketh of the thing wherein he trauaileth?

Darby Translation

What profit hath he that worketh from that wherein he laboureth?

Young's Literal Translation

What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?

Bible in Basic English

What profit has the worker in the work which he does?

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Cross references

“What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?”

Ecclesiastes 1:3 Ecclesiastes 5:16 Proverbs 14:23 Ecclesiastes 2:11 Matthew 16:26 Ecclesiastes 2:22

Ecclesiastes 1:3 · BSB

What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 5:16 · BSB

This too is a grievous affliction: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?

Proverbs 14:23 · BSB

There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

Ecclesiastes 2:11 · BSB

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 16:26 · BSB

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 · BSB

For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

10I have seen the burden that God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them.

Read Ecclesiastes 3