Ecclesiastes 2:22 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²² For what hath man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath labored 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?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he hath been tormented under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:22 Cross References

Psalm 127:2

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.

Proverbs 16:26

He that laboreth, laboreth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

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.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

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

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is a handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

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.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

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.

Matthew 16:26

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?

Matthew 6:11

Give us this day our daily bread.

Matthew 6:25

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?

Matthew 6:34

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.

Luke 12:22

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.

Luke 12:29

And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

1 Corinthians 16:16

that ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboreth.

Philippians 4:6

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

1 Timothy 6:8

And having food and raiment, let us be therewith content.

1 Peter 5:7

casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.