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


In Context

19 And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the work into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless.

20 So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun.

21 For a man may do his work with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then he must leave all he owns to someone who has not worked for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune.

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

23 All his days his work is pain and grief; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is meaningless.

24 A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:22For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he bath been tormented 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?