God’s Works Remain Forever
Ecclesiastes 3:9
In 11 translations
- 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?
- LSV
- What advantage does the doer have in that which he is laboring at?
- YLT
- What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?
- DBY
- What profit hath he that worketh from that wherein he laboureth?
- DRC
- What hath man more of his labour?
- GNV
- What profite hath hee that worketh of the thing wherein he trauaileth?
- JPS
- What profit hath he that worketh in that he laboureth?
- LXXE
- What advantage has he that works in those things wherein he labours?
Word by word Hebrew · tap a word
Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- מַה־יִּתְרוֹן֙ הָֽעוֹשֶׂ֔ה בַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר ה֥וּא עָמֵֽל׃
- LXX-Br
- Τίς περίσσεια τοῦ ποιοῦντος ἐν οἷς αὐτὸς μοχθεῖ;
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Ecclesiastes 1:3What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 5:16This 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?
- Proverbs 14:23There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
- Matthew 16:26What 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 2:11Yet 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 2:22–23For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun? Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.
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