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Ecclesiastes 3:9

American Standard Version

What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?

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Ecclesiastes 3:9 in other translations

What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

Ecclesiastes 3:9 · World English Bible

Ecclesiastes 3:9 in context

  1. 7a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
  2. 8a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
  3. 9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?
  4. 10I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.
  5. 11He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.