Ecclesiastes 1:3
What advantage is there to a man 1 In all his labor that he takes under the sun? 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 the Preacher, 1 Vanity of vanities; all is vanity. 1
4A generation goes, and a generation comes: 1 But the earth stands forever. 1
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 2:11And I looked on all my works 1 Which my hands had wrought, 1 And on my labor which I labored to perform: 1 And, behold, all was vanity and waywardness of spirit, 1 And there is no advantage under the sun. 1
Ecclesiastes 2:22For it happens to a man in all his labor, 1 And in the purpose of his heart 1 Wherein he labors under the sun. 1
Ecclesiastes 4:3Better also than both these 1 Is he who has not yet been, 1 Who has not seen all the evil work 1 That is done under the sun. 1
Ecclesiastes 5:16Yea, all his days are in darkness, and in mourning, 1 And much sorrow, and infirmity, and wrath. 1
Ecclesiastes 6:12What advantage has a man? 1 For who knows what is good for a man in his life, 1 During the number of the life of the days of his vanity? 1 And he has spent them as a shadow; 1 For who shall tell a man 1 What shall be after him under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 8:15Then I praised mirth, 1 Because there is no good for a man under the sun, 1 But to eat, and drink, and be merry: 1 And this shall attend him 1 In his labor all the days of his life, 1 Which God has given him under the sun. 1
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 →