Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

What does the worker gain from his struggles?

International Standard Version

What benefit does the worker gain from what he undertakes?

A Conservative Version

What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

What profit is there for the worker from that in which he labors?

Bible in Basic English

What profit has the worker in the work which he does?

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

What the excellence of him working in what he labored?

King James 2000

What profit has he that works in that in which he labors?

Lexham Expanded Bible

What does the worker gain in his toil?

Modern King James verseion

What profit does he have who works in that in which he labors?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

What else hath a man that doth anything, but weariness and labour?

NET Bible

What benefit can a worker gain from his toil?

New Heart English Bible

What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

The Emphasized Bible

What profit hath he that worketh, in that wherein, himself, hath toiled?

Webster

What profit hath he that worketh in that in which he laboreth?

World English Bible

What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

Youngs Literal Translation

What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
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Definition
Usage
יתרון 
Yithrown 
Usage: 10

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Verse Info

Context Readings

God Has Ordained The Ebb And Flow Of Human Activities

8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. 9 What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils? 10 I have seen the travail which God has given to the sons of men that they may be occupied in it.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit does a man have of all his labour which he takes under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

At last I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought and on the labour that I had laboured to do; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

And this also is a sore evil; that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he that has laboured for the wind?

Proverbs 14:23

In all labour there is fruit, but to talk and not do, brings poverty.

Ecclesiastes 2:22-23

For what does man have of all his labour and of the vexation of his heart in which he has laboured under the sun?

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?

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