Ecclesiastes 3:9

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

What profit remains for the worker from his toil?

Cross References

Proverbs 14:23

In all labor there is profit, but idle talk leads only to poverty.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit does man have left from all his toil at which he toils under the sun? [Is life worth living?]

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all that my hands had done and the labor I had spent in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after the wind and a feeding on it, and there was no profit under the sun. [Matt. 16:26.]

Ecclesiastes 5:16

And this also is a serious and severe evil–that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what gain has he who labors for the wind? [I Tim. 6:6.]

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life [his blessed life in the kingdom of God]? Or what would a man give as an exchange for his [blessed] life [in the kingdom of God]?

1 Corinthians 16:16

I urge you to pay all deference to such leaders and to enlist under them and be subject to them, as well as to everyone who joins and cooperates [with you] and labors earnestly.