Ecclesiastes 2:22

American King James Version (1999)

For what has man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he has labored under the sun?

Cross References

Psalm 127:2

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep.

Proverbs 16:26

He that labors labors for himself; for his mouth craves it of him.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit has a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had worked, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What profit has he that works in that wherein he labors?

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yes, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither said he, For whom do I labor, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yes, it is a sore travail.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days also he eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.

Matthew 16:26

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Matthew 6:11

Give us this day our daily bread.

Matthew 6:25

Therefore I say to you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Matthew 6:34

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof.

Luke 12:22

And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat; neither for the body, what you shall put on.

Luke 12:29

And seek not you what you shall eat, or what you shall drink, neither be you of doubtful mind.

1 Corinthians 16:16

That you submit yourselves to such, and to every one that helps with us, and labors.

Philippians 4:6

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

1 Timothy 6:8

And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

1 Peter 5:7

Casting all your care on him; for he cares for you.