It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.
Ecclesiastes 2:22 - Revised Standard Version What has a man from all the toil and strain with which he toils beneath the sun? Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For what has a man left from all his labor and from the striving and vexation of his heart in which he has toiled under the sun? American Standard Version (1901) For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun? Common English Bible I mean, What do people get for all their hard work and struggles under the sun? Catholic Public Domain Version For how can a man benefit from all his labor and affliction of spirit, by which he has been tormented under the sun? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he hath been tormented under the sun? |
It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.
What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?
Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.
a person who has no one, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.
and spent all his days in darkness and grief, in much vexation and sickness and resentment?
And I commend enjoyment, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and enjoy himself, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of life which God gives him under the sun.
For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.
And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat, nor about your body, what you shall put on.
And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be of anxious mind.
I urge you to be subject to such men and to every fellow worker and laborer.
Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.