Ecclesiastes 3:9
What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?
Young's Literal Translation
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 hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 1:3What advantage [is] to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:22For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured 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 shall 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 →