New Revised Standard Version
What do mortals get from all the toil and strain with which they toil under the sun?

Contemporary English Version
What do we really gain from all of our hard work?

New American Bible
For what profit comes to mortals from all the toil and anxiety of heart with which they toil under the sun?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he hath been tormented under the sun?

For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he hath been tormented under the sun?

hath man

Ecclesiastes 1:3 What hath a man more of all his labour, that he taketh under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 3:9 What hath man more of his labour?

Ecclesiastes 5:10,11,17 A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity. . . .

Ecclesiastes 6:7,8 All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled. . . .

Ecclesiastes 8:15 Therefore I commended mirth, because there was no good for a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and be merry, and that he should take nothing else with him of his labour in the days of his life, which God hath given him under the sun.

Proverbs 16:26 The soul of him that laboureth, laboureth for himself, because his mouth hath obliged him to it.

1 Timothy 6:8 But having food and wherewith to be covered, with these we are content.

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Ecclesiastes 4:6,8 Better is a handful with rest, than both hands full with labour, and vexation of mind. . . .

Psalm 127:2 It is vain for you to rise before light, rise ye after you have sitten, you that eat the bread of sorrow. When he shall give sleep to his beloved,

Matthew 6:11,25,34 Give us this day our supersubstantial bread. . . .

Matthew 16:26 For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

Luke 12:22,29 And he said to his disciples: Therefore I say to you: Be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. . . .

Philippians 4:6 Be nothing solicitous: but in every thing, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.

1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care upon him, for he hath care of you.