Ecclesiastes 3:10 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁰ I have seen the task that God has given to the children of men to keep them occupied.

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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.

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.

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.

Ecclesiastes 3:10 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow will you eat food, until you return to the ground, since from it were you taken. For you are dust, and to dust will you return.”

Ecclesiastes 11:5

Just as you do not know how the spirit passes into the bones in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes all things.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the one who pleases Him, He gives wisdom, knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and accumulating wealth to give it to one who pleases God. This also is only vapor and striving after the wind.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you recall, brothers and sisters, our labor and hardship—working night and day, so as not to burden any of you while we proclaimed to you the Good News of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

And we did not eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but worked night and day with labor and hardship, so as not to burden any of you.