Ecclesiastes 1:3

New American Bible - revised edition

What profit have we from all the toil which we toil at under the sun?

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 2:11

But when I turned to all the works that my hands had wrought, and to the fruit of the toil for which I had toiled so much, see! all was vanity and a chase after wind. There is no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:18

And I detested all the fruits of my toil under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who is to come after me.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows whether that one will be wise or a fool? Yet that one will take control of all the fruits of my toil and wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what profit comes to mortals from all the toil and anxiety of heart with which they toil under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What profit have workers from their toil?

Ecclesiastes 4:3

And better off than both is the yet unborn, who has not seen the wicked work that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:7

Again I saw this vanity under the sun:

Ecclesiastes 5:16

All their days they eat in gloom with great vexation, sickness and resentment.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Those to whom God gives riches and property, and grants power to partake of them, so that they receive their lot and find joy in the fruits of their toil: This is a gift from God.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for mortals in life, the limited days of their vain life, spent like a shadow? Because who can tell them what will come afterward under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:11

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance and profitable to those who see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:13

On the other hand I saw this wise deed under the sun, which I thought magnificent.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

Among all the things that are done under the sun, this is the worst, that there is one lot for all. Hence the hearts of human beings are filled with evil, and madness is in their hearts during life; and afterward—to the dead!

Ecclesiastes 9:6

For them, love and hatred and rivalry have long since perished. Never again will they have part in anything that is done under the sun.

Isaiah 55:2

Why spend your money for what is not bread; your wages for what does not satisfy? Only listen to me, and you shall eat well, you shall delight in rich fare.

Habakkuk 2:13

Is this not from the Lord of hosts: peoples toil for what the flames consume, and nations grow weary for nothing!

Habakkuk 2:18

Of what use is the carved image, that its maker should carve it? Or the molten image, the lying oracle, that its very maker should trust in it, and make mute idols?

Matthew 16:26

What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life?

John 6:27

Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him the Father, God, has set his seal.”

1 Corinthians 16:16

be subordinate to such people and to everyone who works and toils with them.