Ecclesiastes 1:3 KJV — MannaFest

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

KJV

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WEB

What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?

YLT

What advantage is to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

ASV

What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth under the sun?

DBT

What profit hath man of all his labour wherewith he laboureth under the sun?

About this book

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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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Ecclesiastes 3:9
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
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?
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?
Mark 8:36–37
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
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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It is labour under the sun; that is a phrase peculiar to this book, where we meet with it twenty-eight times. There is a world above the sun, a world which needs not the sun, for the glory of God is its light, where there is work without labour and with great profit, the work of angels; but he speaks of the work under the sun, the pains of which are great and the gains little.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

What profit . . . labour--that is, "What profit" as to the chief good (Mt 16:26). Labor is profitable in its proper place (Ge 2:15; Pr 14:23). under the sun--that is, in this life, as opposed to the future world.

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

All is unprofitable as to the attainment of that happiness which all men are enquiring after. His labour - Hebrew. his toilsome labour, both of body and mind in the pursuit of riches, or pleasures, or other earthly things. Under the sun - In all worldly matters, which are usually transacted in the day time, or by the light of the sun.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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