Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?
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?
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?
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
References
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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 has he who works in that in which he labors? 10 I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 1:3
What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 5:16
This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
Proverbs 14:23
In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.
Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?
Matthew 16:26
For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?