Ecclesiastes 3:10

Tree of Life Version

I have seen the task that God has given to the children of men to keep them occupied.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow will you eat food, until you return to the ground, since from it were you taken. For you are dust, and to dust will you return.”

Ecclesiastes 11:5

Just as you do not know how the spirit passes into the bones in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes all things.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the one who pleases Him, He gives wisdom, knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and accumulating wealth to give it to one who pleases God. This also is only vapor and striving after the wind.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you recall, brothers and sisters, our labor and hardship—working night and day, so as not to burden any of you while we proclaimed to you the Good News of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

And we did not eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but worked night and day with labor and hardship, so as not to burden any of you.