Ecclesiastes 1:3
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New Living Translation (© 2007)
What do people get for all their hard work under the sun?

King James Bible
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

American Standard Version
What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth under the sun?

Young's Literal Translation
What advantage is to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 1:3 Additional Translations
Wesley's Notes on the Bible

1:3 What profit - What real and abiding benefit? None at all. All is unprofitable as to the attainment of that happiness which all men are enquiring after. His labour - Heb. his toilsome labour, both of body and mind in the pursuit of riches, or pleasures, or other earthly things. Under the sun - In all worldly matters, which are usually transacted in the day time, or by the light of the sun. By this restriction he implies that the happiness which in vain is sought for in this lower world, is really to be found in heavenly places and things.

Ecclesiastes 1:3 Parallel Commentaries
Advantage Gain Labor Laboureth Profit Profited Sun Toil Toils Wherein Wherewith Work
Advantage Gain Labor Laboureth Profit Profited Sun Toil Toils Wherein Wherewith Work
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Ecclesiastes 2:11 But as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless--like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere.
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Ecclesiastes 5:16 And this, too, is a very serious problem. People leave this world no better off than when they came. All their hard work is for nothing--like working for the wind.