Ecclesiastes 3:9
What does the worker gain from his toil?
Majority Standard Bible
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 for war and a time for peace.
10I have seen the burden that God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 1:3What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:22For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?
Matthew 16:26What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
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 →