Ecclesiastes 3:9
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
What profit has he that works in that wherein he labors?
American King James Version (AKJV)
What profit has he that works in that wherein he labors?
American Standard Version (ASV)
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?
Basic English Translation (BBE)
What profit has the worker in the work which he does?
Webster's Revision
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?
English Revised Version (ERV)
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
Clarke's Ecclesiastes 3:9 Bible Commentary
What profit hath he - What real good, what solid pleasure, is derived from all the labors of man? Necessity drives him to the principal part of his cares and toils; he labors that he may eat and drink; and he eats and drinks that he may be preserved alive, and kept from sickness and pain. Love of money, the basest of all passions, and restless ambition, drive men to many labors and expedients, which perplex and often destroy them. He, then, who lives without God, travails in pain all his days.
Wesley's Ecclesiastes 3:9 Bible Commentary
3:9 What profit - Seeing then all events are out of man's power, and no man can do or enjoy any thing at his pleasure, but only when God pleaseth, as has been shewed in many particulars, and is as true and certain in all others, hence it follows, that all men's labours, without God's blessing, are unprofitable, and utterly insufficient to make them happy.