Ecclesiastes 3:9
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- What does the worker gain from his toil?
- KJV
- What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
- WEB
- What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?
- ASV
- What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?
- DARBY
- What profit hath he that worketh from that wherein he laboureth?
- BLB
- What [is] the profit of the one making in that which he toils?
- ÅB
- Hva vinning har den som gjør noe, av det strev han har med det?
- OTB
- Hva har arbeiderne igjen for sitt strev?
- B1930
- Hvad vinning har den som gjør noget, av det strev han har med det?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ecclesiastes 1:3
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Read in contextProverbs 14:23
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 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?
Read in contextEcclesiastes 2:22–23
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
Read in contextMatthew 16:26
For 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?
Read in contextEcclesiastes 2:11
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.
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