Verse 9

What profit does he have who works in that which he labors?

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  • Eccl 1:3 : 3 What profit does a man have from all his labor which he does under the sun?
  • Eccl 2:11 : 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labor I had toiled to do; and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
  • Eccl 5:16 : 16 And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he who has labored for the wind?
  • Matt 16:26 : 26 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
  • Prov 14:23 : 23 In all labor there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
  • Eccl 2:22-23 : 22 For what has man from all his labor, and of the striving of his heart with which he has labored under the sun? 23 For all his days are sorrowful, and his work is burdensome; even at night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.