Thematic Bible: Toil


Thematic Bible





Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.


What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?


And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain