Ecclesiastes 3:9 KJV — MannaFest

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

KJV

Parallel translations

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WEB

What does the worker gain from his toil?

ASV

What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?

YLT

What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?

DBT

What profit hath he that worketh from that wherein he laboureth?

About this book

Old Testament

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Ecclesiastes — Qohelet the Preacher — ''vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'' The book's relentless examination of life under the sun, resolving not in despair but in ''fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.''

Author: Traditional: Solomon (''son of David, king in Jerusalem''). Critical: a later Qohelet figure writing in Solomonic persona. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer carries the position.
Date: Solomonic reading: c. 940 BC. Critical reading: Persian or early Hellenistic period (5th–3rd century BC).

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6 verses on the floor

Ecclesiastes 1:3
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh 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?
Proverbs 14:23
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 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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Matthew 16:26

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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): What profit has he that works? What can a man promise himself from planting and building, when that which he thinks is brought to perfection may so soon, and will so surely, be plucked up and broken down?

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

But these earthly pursuits, while lawful in their season, are "unprofitable" when made by man, what God never intended them to be, the chief good. Solomon had tried to create an artificial forced joy, at times when he ought rather to have been serious; the result, therefore, of his labor to be happy, out of God's order, was disappointment.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

ECC 3:9PRO 14:23 PRO 28:19
ECC 3:9PRO 14:23 PRO 12:24
ECC 3:9PRO 14:23 2TH 3:10-12
ECC 3:9ECC 2:11 ECC 1:3
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
ECC 3:9ECC 1:3 JHN 6:27
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
ECC 3:9PRO 14:23 HEB 6:10-11
ECC 3:9PRO 14:23 ECC 5:3
ECC 3:9ECC 2:11 ECC 1:14

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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