Ecclesiastes 3:10 - Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ I have seen the painful labor and exertion and miserable business which God has given to the sons of men with which to exercise and busy themselves.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ I have observed the task that God has given human beings.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ I have seen the affliction that God has given to the sons of men, in order that they may be occupied by it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ I have seen the trouble, which God hath given the sons of men to be exercised in it.

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁰ I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.

Ecclesiastes 3:10 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

As you know not what is the way of the wind, or how the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a pregnant woman, even so you know not the work of God, Who does all.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the person who pleases Him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and heaping up, that he may give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after the wind and a feeding on it.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you recall our hard toil and struggles, brethren. We worked night and day [and plied our trade] in order not to be a burden to any of you [for our support] while we proclaimed the glad tidings (the Gospel) of God to you.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

Nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with toil and struggle we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden or impose on any of you [for our support].