Ecclesiastes 3:9

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:3

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

Ecclesiastes 5:16

And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit has he that he labored for the wind?

Proverbs 14:23

In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips [tends] only to poverty.

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?

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.

1 Corinthians 16:16

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