THEOSISEcclesiastes 3:9Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
What hath man more of his labour?
מַה־יִּתְרוֹן֙ הָֽעוֹשֶׂ֔ה בַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר ה֥וּא עָמֵֽל׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Eccl 1:3What hath a man more of all his labour, that he taketh under the sun?
- Eccl 5:16All the days of his life he eateth in darkness, and in many cares, and in misery, and sorrow.
- Prov 14:23In much work there shall be abundance: but where there are many words, there is oftentimes want.
- Eccl 2:22For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he hath been tormented under the sun?
- Eccl 2:23All his days are full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity?
- Eccl 2:11And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.
- Matt 16:26For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?