Ecclesiastes 2:22

English Standard Version 2016

What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun?

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?

Psalm 127:2

It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.

1 Peter 5:7

casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

1 Timothy 6:8

But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.

Philippians 4:6

do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Matthew 6:34

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What gain has the worker from his toil?

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

Matthew 6:11

Give us this day our daily bread,

Ecclesiastes 8:15

And I commend joy, for man has nothing better under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness in much vexation and sickness and anger.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

Luke 12:29

And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried.

Luke 12:22

And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on.

Matthew 6:25

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Proverbs 16:26

A worker’s appetite works for him; his mouth urges him on.

1 Corinthians 16:16

be subject to such as these, and to every fellow worker and laborer.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.