Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
What else hath a man that doth anything, but weariness and labour?
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?
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?
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 of war, and a time of peace. 9 What else hath a man that doth anything, but weariness and labour? 10 For as touching the travail and carefulness which God hath given unto men, I see that he hath given it them, to be exercised in it.
Cross 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.
Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
For what getteth a man of all the labor and travail of his mind, that he taketh under the Sun,
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?