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Ecclesiastes 3:9

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

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Ecclesiastes 3:9 in other translations

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

Ecclesiastes 3:9 · American Standard Version

Ecclesiastes 3:9 in context

  1. 7a time to tear,
    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 has he who works in that in which he labors?
  4. 10I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
  5. 11He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.