Ecclesiastes 3:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

What gain has the worker from his toil?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

What profit remains for the worker from his toil?

American Standard Version (1901)

What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?

Common English Bible

What do workers gain from all their hard work?

Catholic Public Domain Version

What more does a man have from his labor?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

What hath man more of his labour?

Ecclesiastes 3:9 Cross References

Proverbs 14:23

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to want.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

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.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go; and what gain has he that he toiled for the wind,

Matthew 16:26

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?

1 Corinthians 16:16

I urge you to be subject to such men and to every fellow worker and laborer.