Ecclesiastes 1:3
What hath a man more of all his labour, that he taketh under the sun?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
In Context
2Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes vanity of vanities, and all is vanity.
4One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth standeth for ever.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 2:11And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:22For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he bath been tormented under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 4:3And I judged him happier than them both, that is not yet born, nor hath seen the evils that are done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 5:16All the days of his life he eateth in darkness, and in many cares, and in misery, and sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 8:15Therefore I commended mirth, because there was no good for a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and be merry, and that he should take nothing else with him of his labour in the days of his life, which God hath given 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 →