Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
General references
Bible References
General references
Ecclesiastes 1:3 What does a man gain for all his efforts
that he labors at under the sun?
that he labors at under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:11
When I considered all that I had accomplished and what I had labored to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 5:16
This too is a sickening tragedy: exactly as he comes, so he will go. What does the one gain who struggles for the wind?
Proverbs 14:23 There is profit in all hard work,
but endless talk leads only to poverty.
but endless talk
Matthew 16:26 What will it benefit a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?