Ecclesiastes 2:22

A Conservative Version

For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart in which he labors under the sun?

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit has man from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

Psalm 127:2

It is vain for you to rise up early, to take rest late, to eat the bread of toil, [for] so he gives sleep to his beloved.

1 Peter 5:7

having cast all your concern upon him, because he cares for you.

1 Timothy 6:8

but having food and covering we will be content with these.

Philippians 4:6

Be anxious about nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thankfulness make your requests known to God.

Matthew 6:34

Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow will be anxious about things of itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil of it.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

Matthew 16:26

For what does it profit a men, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Matthew 6:11

Give us this day the bread sufficient for us.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Then I commended joy, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be cheerful. For that shall abide with him in his labor [all] the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days also he eats in gloom, and he is greatly troubled, and has depression and anger.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one man who is alone, and he has not a second, yea, he has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end of all his labor, nor are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, [he says], do I labor, and deprive my soul of

Luke 12:29

And do not seek what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, and do not be unsettled.

Luke 12:22

And he said to his disciples, Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, nor for the body, what ye may wear.

Matthew 6:25

Because of this I say to you, be not anxious about your life, what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, nor yet for your body, what ye may wear. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the clothing?

Proverbs 16:26

The appetite of the laboring man labors for him, for his mouth urges him.

1 Corinthians 16:16

that ye also be subject to such men, and to every man working together and laboring.

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 a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.