Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?
New American Standard Bible
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?
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
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 3:9
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 for war, and a time for peace. 9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth? 10 I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 1:3
What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth 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 hath he that he laboreth for the wind?
Proverbs 14:23
In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?
Matthew 16:26
For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?