Ecclesiastes 2:22 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²² For what hath a man of all his labour, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboureth 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 that ye rise up early, and so late take rest, And eat the bread of toil: For so he giveth unto his beloved sleep.

Proverbs 16:26

The appetite of the labouring man laboureth for him; For his mouth craveth it of him.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit hath man of all his labour wherein he laboureth under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

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

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is an handful with quietness, than two handfuls with labour and striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, saith he, do I labour, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed and hath sickness and wrath.

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 in his labour all the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.

Matthew 16:26

For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?

Matthew 6:11

Give us this day our daily bread.

Matthew 6:25

Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious 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 the food, and the body than the raiment?

Matthew 6:34

Be not therefore anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Luke 12:22

And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.

Luke 12:29

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

1 Corinthians 16:16

that ye also be in subjection unto such, and to every one that helpeth in the work and laboureth.

Philippians 4:6

In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

1 Timothy 6:8

but having food and covering we shall be therewith content.

1 Peter 5:7

casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.