Ecclesiastes 1:3
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Context
This verse from Ecclesiastes Chapter 1 connects to 10 cross-references. Qohelet the Preacher opens with the declaration 'Vanity of vanities! All is vanity' and surveys the relentless cycles of nature — sun rising and setting, rivers running to the sea — as evidence that there is nothing new under the …
Other Translations
What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth under the sun?
What advantage <FI>is<Fi> to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?
What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?
Cross References
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken …
This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for …
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: …
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under …
Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, …
Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he …
Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to …
And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what …