Ecclesiastes 2:22

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

For why what shall it profit to a man of all his travail, and torment of spirit, with which he was tormented under [the] sun?

Cross References

Psalm 127:2

It is vain to you to rise before the light; rise ye after ye have set, that eat the bread of sorrow. When he shall give sleep to his loved;

Proverbs 16:26

The soul of a man travailing travaileth to himself; for his mouth compelled him.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What hath a man more[over] of all his travail, by which he travaileth under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

And when I had turned me to all the works which mine hands had made, and to the travails in which I had sweated in vain, I saw in all things vanity and torment of soul, and that nothing under [the] sun dwelleth.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What hath a man more of his travail?

Ecclesiastes 4:6

and saith, Better is an handful, with rest, than ever either hand full, with travail and torment of soul.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

one there is, and he hath not a second; neither a son, nor a brother; and nevertheless he ceaseth not to travail, neither his eyes be filled with riches; neither he bethinketh him, and saith, To whom travail I, and deceive my soul in goods? In this also is vanity, and the worst torment.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

In all the days of his life he ate in darknesses, and in many busynesses, and in neediness, and sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Therefore I praised gladness, that no good was to a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and to be joyful; and that he should bear away with himself only this of his travail, in the days of his life, which God gave to him under the sun.

Matthew 16:26

For what profiteth it to a man [or what profiteth to a man], if he win all the world, and suffer impairing of his soul? or what exchanging shall a man give for his soul?

Matthew 6:11

give to us this day our each day’s bread;

Matthew 6:25

Therefore I say to you, that ye be not busy to your life, what ye shall eat; nor to your body, with what ye shall be clothed. Whether life is not more than meat, and the body more than the cloth?

Matthew 6:34

Therefore do not ye be busy into the morrow, for the morrow shall be busy to itself; for it sufficeth to the day his own malice.

Luke 12:22

And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, do not ye be busy to your life, what ye shall eat, neither to your body, with what ye shall be clothed.

Luke 12:29

And do not ye seek, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; and do not ye be raised on high.

1 Corinthians 16:16

that also ye be subjects to such, and to each working together and travailing.

Philippians 4:6

Be ye nothing busy, but in all prayer and beseeching, with doing of thankings, be your askings known at God.

1 Timothy 6:8

But we having foods, and with what things we shall be covered [or clothed], be we satisfied with these things.

1 Peter 5:7

and cast ye all your busyness into him, for to him is care of you.