Ecclesiastes 1:3
Modern Translations
New International Version
What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?

New Living Translation
What do people get for all their hard work under the sun?

English Standard Version
What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?

Berean Study Bible
What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?

New American Standard Bible
What advantage does a person have in all his work Which he does under the sun?

NASB 1995
What advantage does man have in all his work Which he does under the sun?

NASB 1977
What advantage does man have in all his work Which he does under the sun?

Amplified Bible
What advantage does man have from all his work Which he does under the sun (while earthbound)?

Christian Standard Bible
What does a person gain for all his efforts that he labors at under the sun?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
What does a man gain for all his efforts that he labors at under the sun?

Contemporary English Version
What is there to show for all of our hard work here on this earth?

Good News Translation
You spend your life working, laboring, and what do you have to show for it?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
What do people gain from all their hard work under the sun?

International Standard Version
What does a man gain from all of the work that he undertakes on earth?

NET Bible
What benefit do people get from all the effort which they expend on earth?
Classic Translations
King James Bible
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

New King James Version
What profit has a man from all his labor In which he toils under the sun?

King James 2000 Bible
What profit has a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun?

New Heart English Bible
What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

World English Bible
What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

American King James Version
What profit has a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun?

American Standard Version
What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth under the sun?

A Faithful Version
What profit does a man have in all his labor which he labors under the sun?

Darby Bible Translation
What profit hath man of all his labour wherewith he laboureth under the sun?

English Revised Version
What profit hath man of all his labour wherein he laboureth under the sun?

Webster's Bible Translation
What profit hath a man of all his labor, which he taketh under the sun?

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
What remaineth vnto man in all his trauaile, which he suffereth vnder ye sunne?

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For what els hath a man of all the labour that he taketh vnder the sunne?

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For what els hath a ma, of all the labor yt he taketh vnder the Sonne?
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
What advantage [is] to man by all his labor that he labors at under the sun?

Young's Literal Translation
What advantage is to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

Smith's Literal Translation
What the profit to a man in all the labor he will labor under the sun?

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
What hath a man more of all his labour, that he taketh under the sun?

Catholic Public Domain Version
What more does a man have from all his labor, as he labors under the sun?

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
What profit has a son of man in all the toil that he toils under the sun?

Lamsa Bible
What profit has a man of all his labor at which he toils under the sun?

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
What profit hath man of all his labour Wherein he laboureth under the sun?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
What advantage is there to a man in all his labour that he takes under the sun?
















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