Ecclesiastes 3:10 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁰ I have seen the business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Ecclesiastes 3:10 Cross References

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Ecclesiastes 11:5

As you do not know how the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the man who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember our labor and toil, brethren; we worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you, while we preached to you the gospel of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

we did not eat any one's bread without paying, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you.