Ecclesiastes 1:3
What more does a man have from all his labor, as he labors under the sun?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
In Context
2Ecclesiastes said: Vanity of vanities! Vanity of vanities, and all is vanity!
4A generation passes away, and a generation arrives. But the earth stands forever.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 2:11But when I turned myself toward all the works that my hands had made, and to the labors in which I had perspired to no purpose, I saw emptiness and affliction of the soul in all things, and that nothing is permanent under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:22For how can a man benefit from all his labor and affliction of spirit, by which he has been tormented under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 4:3And happier than both of these, I judged him to be, who has not yet been born, and who has not yet seen the evils which are done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 5:16All the days of his life he consumes: in darkness, and with many worries, and in distress as well as sadness.
Ecclesiastes 8:15And so, I praised rejoicing, because there was no good for a man under the sun, except to eat and drink, and to be cheerful, and because he may take nothing with him from his labor in the days of his life, which God has given to him under the sun.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 1:2-4
Ecclesiastes We are still among Solomon's happy men, his happy servants, that stood continually before him to hear his wisdom; and they are the choicest of all the dictates of his wisdom, such as were more immediately given by divine inspiration, that are here transmitted to us, not to be heard, as by them, but once, and then liable to be mistaken or forgotten, and by repetition to lose their beauty, but to be read, reviewed, revolved, and had in everlasting remembrance. The account we have of Solomon's apostasy… Read the whole commentary →