Ecclesiastes 2:22

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he hath been tormented under the sun?

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What hath a man more of all his labour, that he taketh under the sun?

Psalm 127:2

For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

1 Peter 5:7

Casting all your care upon him, for he hath care of you.

1 Timothy 6:8

But having food, and wherewith to be covered, with these we are content.

Philippians 4:6

Be nothing solicitous; but in every thing, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.

Matthew 6:34

Be not therefore solicitous for to morrow; for the morrow will be solicitous for itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is a handful with rest, than both hands full with labour, and vexation of mind.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What hath man more of his labour?

Matthew 16:26

For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

Matthew 6:11

Give us this day our supersubstantial bread.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Therefore I commended mirth, because there was no good for a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and be merry, and that he should take nothing else with him of his labour in the days of his life, which God hath given him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

This therefore hath seemed good to me, that a man should eat and drink, and enjoy the fruit of his labour, wherewith he hath laboured under the sun, all the days of his life, which God hath given him: and this is his portion.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is but one, and he hath not a second, no child, no brother, and yet he ceaseth not to labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches, neither doth he reflect, saying: For whom do I labour, and defraud my soul of good things? in this also is vanity, and a grievous vexation.

Luke 12:29

And seek not you what you shall eat, or what you shall drink: and be not lifted up on high.

Luke 12:22

And he said to his disciples: Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat; nor for your body, what you shall put on.

Matthew 6:25

Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?

Proverbs 16:26

The soul of him that laboureth, laboureth for himself, because his mouth hath obliged him to it.

1 Corinthians 16:16

That you also be subject to such, and to every one that worketh with us, and laboureth.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.