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 profit has man from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do, and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 5:16
And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit has he that he labored for the wind?
Proverbs 14:23
In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips [tends] only to poverty.
Matthew 16:26
For what does it profit a men, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?