It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
Ecclesiastes 2:22 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For what has a man left from all his labor and from the striving and vexation of his heart in which he has toiled under the sun? American Standard Version (1901) For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun? Common English Bible I mean, What do people get for all their hard work and struggles under the sun? Catholic Public Domain Version For how can a man benefit from all his labor and affliction of spirit, by which he has been tormented under the sun? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he hath been tormented under the sun? |
It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
The appetite of the laboring man labors for him; for his mouth urges him on.
What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment? This also is vanity, yes, it is a miserable business.
All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Therefore don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is sufficient.
He said to his talmidim, *Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.