Ecclesiastes 3:9

What gain has the worker from his toil?

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind?

Proverbs 14:23

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.

Ecclesiastes 2:22-23

What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun?

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

Bible References

General references

Ecclesiastes 1:3
What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 5:16
This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind?
Proverbs 14:23
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
Matthew 16:26
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

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