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 a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had made, and on the labor that I had expended on it: and, behold, all was vanity and like grasping the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 5:16
And this also is a great evil, that just as he came, so shall he go: and what profit has he who has labored for the wind?
Proverbs 14:23
In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.
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?