Verse 22

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

Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 1:3 : 3 What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth under the sun?
  • Eccl 3:9 : 9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?
  • Matt 6:34 : 34 Be not therefore anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
  • Phil 4:6 : 6 In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
  • 1 Tim 6:8 : 8 but having food and covering we shall be therewith content.
  • 1 Pet 5:7 : 7 casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.
  • Ps 127:2 : 2 It is vain for you to rise up early, To take rest late, To eat the bread of toil; [For] so he giveth unto his beloved sleep.
  • Prov 16:26 : 26 The appetite of the laboring man laboreth for him; For his mouth urgeth him [thereto] .
  • Matt 16:26 : 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?
  • Luke 12:22 : 22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for [your] life, what ye shall eat; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.
  • Luke 12:29 : 29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, and what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
  • Eccl 4:6 : 6 Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and striving after wind.
  • Eccl 4:8 : 8 There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, [saith he], do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
  • Eccl 5:10-11 : 10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity. 11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, save the beholding [of them] with his eyes?
  • Eccl 5:17 : 17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.
  • Eccl 6:7-8 : 7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. 8 For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? [or] what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?
  • Eccl 8:15 : 15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that shall abide with him in his labor [all] the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.
  • Matt 6:11 : 11 Give us this day our daily bread.
  • Matt 6:25 : 25 Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?