Ecclesiastes 1:3 KJV
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 1:3, King James Version
In context
2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
Cross-references
- Ecclesiastes 3:9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
- Ecclesiastes 5:16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
- Ecclesiastes 2:22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 2:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
- Mark 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?