Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
What benefit does the worker gain from what he undertakes?
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?
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?
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 for war, and a time for peace. 9 What benefit does the worker gain from what he undertakes? 10 I have observed the burdens placed by God on human beings in order to perfect them.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 1:3
What does a man gain from all of the work that he undertakes on earth?
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I examined all of my accomplishments that I had brought about by my own efforts, including the work that I had labored so hard to complete and it was all pointless, like chasing after the wind, and there was nothing to be gained on earth.
Ecclesiastes 5:16
This is also a painful tragedy: However a person comes, he also departs; so what does he gain as he labors after the wind?
Proverbs 14:23
In hard work there is always profit, but too much chattering leads to poverty.
Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
For what does a person gain from everything that he accomplishes and from his inner life struggles that he undergoes while working on earth?
Matthew 16:26
because what profit will a person have if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?