"What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?" — Ecclesiastes 3:9

Ecclesiastes 3:9 · KJV

“What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?”

— Ecclesiastes 3:9

Verse 8

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Verse 10

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

Ecclesiastes 3 — Context

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

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

He hath made every {thing} beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

Proverbs 14:23

In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips {tendeth} only to penury.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

And this also {is} a sore evil, {that} in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

Ecclesiastes 2:22-23

For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

Matthew 16:26

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?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all {was} vanity and vexation of spirit, and {there was} no profit under the sun.