Ecclesiastes 2:22

New King James Version

For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun?

Cross References

Psalm 127:2

It is vain for you to rise up early, To sit up late, To eat the bread of sorrows; For so He gives His beloved sleep.

Proverbs 16:26

The person who labors, labors for himself, For his hungry mouth drives him on.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit has a man from all his labor In which he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done And on the labor in which I had toiled; And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What profit has the worker from that in which he labors?

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better a handful with quietness Than both hands full, together with toil and grasping for the wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one alone, without companion: He has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his labors, Nor is his eye satisfied with riches. But he never asks, “For whom do I toil and deprive myself of good?” This also is vanity and a grave misfortune.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days he also eats in darkness, And he has much sorrow and sickness and anger.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

So I commended enjoyment, because a man has nothing better under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry; for this will remain with him in his labor all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

Matthew 16:26

For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Matthew 6:11

Give us this day our daily bread.

Matthew 6:25

“Therefore I say to you, do not worry 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?

Matthew 6:34

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Luke 12:22

Then He said to His disciples, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about the body, what you will put on.

Luke 12:29

“And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind.

1 Corinthians 16:16

that you also submit to such, and to everyone who works and labors with us.

Philippians 4:6

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

1 Timothy 6:8

And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.

1 Peter 5:7

casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.