Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
What does the worker gain from his struggles?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
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
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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 for war and a time for peace.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 1:3
that he labors at under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:11
When I considered all that I had accomplished
Ecclesiastes 5:16
This too is a sickening tragedy: exactly as he comes, so he will go. What does the one gain
Proverbs 14:23
but endless talk
Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
For what does a man get with all his work and all his efforts
Matthew 16:26