Devine Scripture

Ecclesiastes 3:10

Ecclesiastes chapter 3 · verse 10 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

Context

v.9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?

v.10This passage

v.11He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ecclesiastes 1:13

    And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:26

    For to the man that pleaseth him God giveth wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that pleaseth God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Genesis 3:19

    in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

  • 2 Thessalonians 3:8

    neither did we eat bread for nought at any man’s hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:9

    For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.