Ecclesiastes 1:3
What profit does mankind gain from all the work that they labor at under the sun? 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
In Context
4One generation goes, 2 and another generation comes, 1 but the earth remains forever. 1
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 2:11Then I looked on all the deeds that my hands had accomplished, 2 and on the work that I had done, 1 but again, everything was vapor and an attempt to shepherd the wind. 2 There was no profit under the sun in it. 1
Ecclesiastes 2:22For what profit does the person gain who works so hard and tries in his heart to complete his labors under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 4:3However, more fortunate than both of them is the one who has not yet lived, 2 the one who has not seen any of the evil acts that are done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 5:16Another evil is 1 that as a person comes, so he goes away. 1 So what profit is there for him who works for the wind? 1
Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for man in his life during his futile, numbered days through which he passes like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come under the sun after he passes?
Ecclesiastes 8:15So I recommend happiness, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat and drink and to be happy. It is happiness that will accompany him in his labor for all the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.
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 →