Ecclesiastes 1:3

All Toil Is Profitless And Repetitious

² Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. ³ What advantage does man have in all his work
Which he does under the sun?
⁴ One generation passes away, and another generation comes, but the earth abides for ever.

On Earth

Under the Sun

Ecclesiastes 2:11

At last 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.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What profit does the one that works have in that in which he labours?

Ecclesiastes 5:16

And this also is a sore evil; that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he that has laboured for the wind?

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what does man have of all his labour and of the vexation of his heart in which he has laboured under the sun?

Proverbs 23:4-5

Do not labour to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a fool, he who shall have rule over all my labour in which I have laboured and in which I have showed myself wise under the sun? This is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

And I thought that better is he than both of them who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil works that are done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:7

Then I returned, and I saw another vanity under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Behold therefore the good which I have seen: that good is to eat and to drink and to enjoy of the good of all his labour that he takes under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him; for it is his portion.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of the life of his vanity which he causes to be as a shadow? for who shall teach the man what shall be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:11

Knowledge is good with an inheritance and is the excellency of those that see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 8:15-17

Therefore I commended joy because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry, for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all; and also that the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Even their love and their hatred and their envy is now perished; neither have they any more a portion in the age in any thing that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:13

I have also seen this wisdom under the sun, which is important unto me:

Isaiah 55:2

Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Habakkuk 2:13

Is this not of the LORD of the hosts? Therefore the peoples shall labour for the fire, and the Gentiles shall weary themselves in vain.

Habakkuk 2:18

Of what profit is the graven image that its maker has sculpted; the molten image, that teaches lies, so that in making dumb images the maker trusts in his work?

Matthew 16:26

For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Mark 8:36-37

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

John 6:27

Labour not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you, for him has God the Father sealed.