Ecclesiastes 2:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² What do mortals get from all the toil and strain with which they toil 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 in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil, for he gives sleep to his beloved.

Proverbs 16:26

The appetite of workers works for them; their hunger urges them on.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What do people gain from all the toil at which they toil 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 again, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What gain have the workers from their toil?

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is a handful with quiet than two handfuls with toil and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

the case of solitary individuals, without sons or brothers; yet there is no end to all their toil, and their eyes are never satisfied with riches. “For whom am I toiling,” they ask, “and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

Besides, all their days they eat in darkness, in much anger and sickness and resentment.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

So I commend enjoyment, for there is nothing better for people under the sun than to eat and drink and enjoy themselves, for this will go with them in their toil through the days of life that God gives them under the sun.

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?

Matthew 6:11

Give us today our daily bread.

Matthew 6:25

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?

Matthew 6:34

“So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today.

Luke 12:22

He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.

Luke 12:29

And do not keep seeking what you are to eat and what you are to drink, and do not keep worrying.

1 Corinthians 16:16

I urge you to put yourselves at the service of such people and of everyone who works and toils with them.

Philippians 4:6

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

1 Timothy 6:8

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

1 Peter 5:7

Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you.