9What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?


In Context

6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

7 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

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

9 What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

10 I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Ecclesiastes 3:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:9What does the worker gain from his toil?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:9What profit has he that works in that wherein he labors?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:9What hath man more of his labour?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:9What profit hath he that worketh from that wherein he laboureth?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:9What profit hath he that worketh in that in which he laboreth?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:9What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?