Ecclesiastes 2:22

American Standard Version (1901)

For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth 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 giveth unto his beloved sleep.

1 Peter 5:7

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

1 Timothy 6:8

but having food and covering we shall be therewith content.

Philippians 4:6

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

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.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

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

Ecclesiastes 3:9

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

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.

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 joyful: for that shall abide with him in his labor all the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

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

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 labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, saith he, do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

Luke 12:29

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

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.

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?

Proverbs 16:26

The appetite of the laboring man laboreth for him; For his mouth urgeth him thereto.

1 Corinthians 16:16

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

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.