Devine Scripture

Ecclesiastes 3:9

Ecclesiastes chapter 3 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.8a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

v.9This passage

v.10I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

Cross references

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

  • Ecclesiastes 1:3

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

  • Ecclesiastes 2:11

    Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • Matthew 16:26

    For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?

  • Proverbs 14:23

    In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lipstendethonly to penury.

  • Ecclesiastes 5:16

    And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that he laboreth for the wind?

  • Ecclesiastes 2:22

    For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?