It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Ecclesiastes 2:22 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition For what hath man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath labored under the sun? Flere versionerKing 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 vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Better is a handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labor, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought 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 meat, and the body than raiment?
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
that ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboreth.
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.