Ecclesiastes 2:22

Young's Literal Translation 1862

For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

Cross References

Psalm 127:2

Vain for you who are rising early, Who delay sitting, eating the bread of griefs, So He giveth to His beloved one sleep.

Proverbs 16:26

A labouring man hath laboured for himself, For his mouth hath caused `him' to bend over it.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What advantage `is' to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?

Ecclesiastes 4:6

`Better `is' a handful `with' quietness, than two handfuls `with' labour and vexation of spirit.'

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and `he saith not', `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

Also all his days in darkness he consumeth, and sadness, and wrath, and sickness abound.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remaineth with him of his labour the days of his life that God hath given to him under the sun.

Matthew 16:26

for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

Matthew 6:11

`Our appointed bread give us to-day.

Matthew 6:25

`Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing?

Matthew 6:34

Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; sufficient for the day `is' the evil of it.

Luke 12:22

And he said unto his disciples, `Because of this, to you I say, Be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat; nor for the body, what ye may put on;

Luke 12:29

`And ye -- seek not what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, and be not in suspense,

1 Corinthians 16:16

that ye also be subject to such, and to every one who is working with `us' and labouring;

Philippians 4:6

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

1 Timothy 6:8

but having food and raiment -- with these we shall suffice ourselves;

1 Peter 5:7

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.