Ecclesiastes 1:3
What hath a man more of alle his trauel, bi which he traueilith vndur the sunne?
Bible (Wycliffe)
In The King James Version
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
In Context
2The vanyte of vanytees, seide Ecclesiastes; the vanyte of vanytees, and alle thingis ben vanite.
4Generacioun passith awei, and generacioun cometh; but the erthe stondith with outen ende.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 2:11And whanne Y hadde turned me to alle werkis whiche myn hondys hadden maad, and to the trauels in whiche Y hadde swet in veyn, Y siy in alle thingis vanyte and turment of the soule, and that no thing vndir sunne dwellith stabli.
Ecclesiastes 2:22For whi what schal it profite to a man of al his trauel, and turment of spirit, bi which he was turmentid vndur sunne?
Ecclesiastes 4:3and Y demyde hym, that was not borun yit, and siy not the yuels that ben don vndur the sunne, to be blisfulere than euer eithir.
Ecclesiastes 5:16In alle the daies of his lijf he eet in derknessis, and in many bisinessis, and in nedynesse, and sorewe.
Ecclesiastes 8:15Therfor Y preysid gladnesse, that no good was to a man vndur the sunne, no but to ete, and drynke, and to be ioiful; and that he schulde bere awei with hym silf oneli this of his trauel, in the daies of his lijf, whiche God yaf to hym vndur the sunne.