Ecclesiastes 3:10 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁰ I have seen the task that God has given the children of Adam to keep them occupied.

Dugang nga mga bersyon

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ I have seen the painful labor and exertion and miserable business which God has given to the sons of men with which to exercise and busy themselves.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ I have observed the task that God has given human beings.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ I have seen the affliction that God has given to the sons of men, in order that they may be occupied by it.

Ecclesiastes 3:10 Cross References

Genesis 3:19

You will eat bread  by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust.’

Ecclesiastes 11:5

Just as you don’t know the path of the wind, or how bones develop in   the womb of a pregnant woman, so also you don’t know the work of God who makes everything.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the person who is pleasing in his sight, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy;  but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and accumulating in order to give to the one who is pleasing in God’s sight.  This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember our labour and hardship, brothers and sisters. Working  night and day so that we would not burden any of you, we preached God’s gospel to you.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

we did not eat  anyone’s food free of charge;  instead, we laboured  and toiled,  working  night and day, so that we would not be a burden  to any of you.