Ecclesiastes 3:9

New English Translation

What benefit can a worker gain from his toil?

Cross References

Proverbs 14:23

In all hard work there is profit, but merely talking about it only brings poverty.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What benefit do people get from all the effort which they expend on earth?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Yet when I reflected on everything I had accomplished and on all the effort that I had expended to accomplish it, I concluded: “All these achievements and possessions are ultimately profitless – like chasing the wind! There is nothing gained from them on earth.”

Ecclesiastes 5:16

This is another misfortune: Just as he came, so will he go. What did he gain from toiling for the wind?

Matthew 16:26

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

1 Corinthians 16:16

also to submit to people like this, and to everyone who cooperates in the work and labors hard.