Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

General references

Ecclesiastes 1:3
For what else hath a man, of all the labor that he taketh under the Sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:11
But when I considered all the works that my hands had wrought, and all the labours that I had taken therein: Lo, all was vanity and vexation of mind, and nothing of any value under the Sun.
Ecclesiastes 5:16
This is a miserable plague, that he shall go away even as he came. What helpeth him then, that he hath labored in the wind?
Proverbs 14:23
In every labour there is some profit; but only vain words bringeth forth penury.
Matthew 16:26
What shall it profit a man, though he should win all the whole world, if he lose his own soul? Or else, what shall a man give to redeem his soul again withal?