22For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he bath been tormented under the sun?


In Context

19 Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there any thing so vain?

20 Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring any more under the sun.

21 For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and knowledge, and carefulness, he leaveth what he hath gotten to an idle man: so this also is vanity, and a great evil.

22 For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he bath been tormented under the sun?

23 All his days axe full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity?

24 Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:22 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:22For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:22What does a man get for all the toil and anxious striving with which he labors under the sun?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:22For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:22For what will man have of all his labour and of the striving of his heart, wherewith he hath wearied himself under the sun?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:22For what hath a man of all his labour, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboureth under the sun?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:22For what hath man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, in which he hath labored under the sun?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:22For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:22For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:22For what has man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he has labored under the sun?