Ecclesiastes 2:22 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²² For what does a person get with all his work and all his efforts  that he labours at under the sun?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² 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

²² 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)

²² 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

²² I mean, What do people get for all their hard work and struggles under the sun?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² For how can a man benefit from all his labor and affliction of spirit, by which he has been tormented under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:22 Cross References

Proverbs 16:26

A worker’s appetite works for him because his hunger  urges him on.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What does a person gain for all his efforts that he labours at under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

When I considered all that I had accomplished  and what I had laboured to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind.  , There was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What does the worker gain from his struggles?

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better one handful with rest than two handfuls with effort and a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is a person without a companion,  without even a son or brother, and though there is no end to all his struggles, his eyes are still not content with riches.  ‘Who am I struggling for,’ he asks, ‘and depriving myself of good things? ’ This too is futile and a miserable task.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

What is more, he eats in darkness all his days,  with much frustration, sickness, and anger.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

So I commended enjoyment because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat, drink, and enjoy himself,  for this will accompany him in his labour during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.

Matthew 16:26

For what will it benefit someone if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will anyone give in exchange for his life?

Matthew 6:11

Give us today our daily bread.

Matthew 6:25

‘Therefore I tell you:   Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?

Matthew 6:34

Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble   of its own.

Luke 12:22

Then he said to his disciples, ‘Therefore I tell you,   don’t worry about your life, what you will eat; or about the body, what you will wear.

Luke 12:29

Don’t strive for what you should eat and what you should drink, and don’t be anxious.

1 Corinthians 16:16

also to submit to such people, and to everyone who works and labours with them.

Philippians 4:6

Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

1 Timothy 6:8

If we have food and clothing,  we will be content with these.

1 Peter 5:7

casting all your cares on him, because he cares about you.