Ecclesiastes 3:9
What advantage does the doer have in that which he is laboring at?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
In Context
8A time to love, || And a time to hate. A time of war, || And a time of peace.
10I have seen the travail that God has given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 1:3What advantage [is] to man by all his labor that he labors at under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:22For what has been to a man by all his labor, and by the thought of his heart that he labored at under the sun?
Matthew 16:26for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his life?
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 3:2-11
Mutability of Human Affairs. 1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6 A time to get,… Read the whole commentary →