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.
Ecclesiastes 2:22 - King James 2000 For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart, with which he has labored 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 sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep.
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had made, and on the labor that I had expended on it: and, behold, all was vanity and like grasping the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Better is a handful with quietness, than both hands full with toil and grasping for the wind.
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither says he, For whom do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a heavy travail.
All his days also he eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him in his labor all the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body than clothing?
Take therefore no thought for tomorrow: for tomorrow shall take thought of the things for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat; neither for the body, what you shall put on.
And seek you not what you shall eat, or what you shall drink, neither be of anxious mind.
That you submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that works with us, and labors.
Be anxious for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.