Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version What do workers gain from their toil? New Living Translation What do people really get for all their hard work? English Standard Version What gain has the worker from his toil? Berean Standard Bible What does the worker gain from his toil? King James Bible What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? New King James Version What profit has the worker from that in which he labors? New American Standard Bible What benefit is there for the worker from that in which he labors? NASB 1995 What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils? NASB 1977 What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils? Legacy Standard Bible What advantage is there to the worker from that in which he labors? Amplified Bible What profit is there for the worker from that in which he labors? Christian Standard Bible What does the worker gain from his struggles? Holman Christian Standard Bible What does the worker gain from his struggles? American Standard Version What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth? Aramaic Bible in Plain English What profit has a son man in the work that he labors under the sun? Brenton Septuagint Translation What advantage has he that works in those things wherein he labours? Contemporary English Version What do we gain by all our hard work? Douay-Rheims Bible What hath man more of his labour? English Revised Version What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? GOD'S WORD® Translation What do working people gain from their hard labor? Good News Translation What do we gain from all our work? International Standard Version What benefit does the worker gain from what he undertakes? JPS Tanakh 1917 What profit hath he that worketh in that he laboureth? Literal Standard Version What advantage does the doer have in that which he is laboring at? Majority Standard Bible What does the worker gain from his toil? New American Bible What profit have workers from their toil? NET Bible What benefit can a worker gain from his toil? New Revised Standard Version What gain have the workers from their toil? New Heart English Bible What profit has he who works in that in which he labors? Webster's Bible Translation What profit hath he that worketh in that in which he laboreth? World English Bible What profit has he who works in that in which he labors? Young's Literal Translation What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at? Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context God's Works Remain Forever9What does the worker gain from his toil? 10I have seen the burden that God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them.… Cross References 1 Corinthians 16:16 to submit to such as these, and to every fellow worker and laborer. Ecclesiastes 1:3 What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun? Ecclesiastes 2:11 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. Ecclesiastes 5:16 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? Treasury of Scripture What profit has he that works in that wherein he labors? Ecclesiastes 1:3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? Ecclesiastes 2:11,22,23 Then 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… Ecclesiastes 5:16 And 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? Jump to Previous Advantage Doer Gain Labors Labouring Profit Toil Toils Wherein Work Worker Worketh WorksJump to Next Advantage Doer Gain Labors Labouring Profit Toil Toils Wherein Work Worker Worketh WorksEcclesiastes 3 1. by the necessary change of times, vanity is added to human travail11. is an excellence in God's works 16. as for man, God shall judge his works hereafter, though here he be like a beast Verse 9. - If thus man, in all his actions and under all circumstances, depends upon time and seasons which are beyond his control, we return to the same desponding question already asked in Ecclesiastes 1:3. What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth? The preceding enumeration leads up to this question, to which the answer is "None." Since time and tide wait for no man, since man cannot know for certain his opportunity, he cannot reckon on reaping any advantage from his labor. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Whatמַה־ (mah-) Interrogative Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what does the worker הָֽעוֹשֶׂ֔ה (hā·‘ō·w·śeh) Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 6213: To do, make gain יִּתְרוֹן֙ (yiṯ·rō·wn) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3504: Preeminence, gain from his ה֥וּא (hū) Pronoun - third person masculine singular Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are toil? עָמֵֽל׃ (‘ā·mêl) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 6001: Toiling, a laborer, sorrowful Links Ecclesiastes 3:9 NIVEcclesiastes 3:9 NLT Ecclesiastes 3:9 ESV Ecclesiastes 3:9 NASB Ecclesiastes 3:9 KJV Ecclesiastes 3:9 BibleApps.com Ecclesiastes 3:9 Biblia Paralela Ecclesiastes 3:9 Chinese Bible Ecclesiastes 3:9 French Bible Ecclesiastes 3:9 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Ecclesiastes 3:9 What profit has he who works (Ecclesiast. Ec Ecc Eccles.) |
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