Ecclesiastes 1:3
For what els hath a man of all the labour that he taketh vnder the sunne?
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
In Context
4One generation passeth away, another commeth: but the earth abideth styll.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 2:11But when I considered all the workes that my handes had wrought, and all the labour that I had taken therin: lo all was but vanitie and vexation of mynde, and nothing of any value vnder the sunne.
Ecclesiastes 2:22For what getteth a man of all the labour and trauayle of his mynde that he taketh vnder the sunne?
Ecclesiastes 4:3Yea him that is yet vnborne, to be better at ease then they both: because he seeth not the miserable workes that are done vnder the sunne.
Ecclesiastes 5:16This is a miserable plague, that he shall go euen as he came away: What helpeth it him then that he hath laboured in the wynde?
Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knoweth what is good for man liuing in the dayes of his vayne life, whiche is but a shadowe? Or who wyl tell a man what shall happen after hym vnder the sunne?
Ecclesiastes 8:15Therfore I commende gladnesse, because a man hath no better thing vnder the sunne, then to eate and drinke, and to be merie: for that shall he haue of his labour, al the dayes of his life which God geueth hym vnder the sunne.
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 →