Ecclesiastes 3:9
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
*What profite hath hee that worketh, in that wherein he laboureth?
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- *Cross-referenceChap. 1.3.
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11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
11*Then I looked on all the workes that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to doe: and behold, all was vanitie, and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit vnder the Sunne.
- Ecclesiastes 2:22–23Rank 5 from verse 9
22For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
22*For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart wherein hee hath laboured vnder the Sunne?
23*For all his dayes are sorrowes, and his traueile, griefe; yea his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanitie.
- Matthew 16:26Rank 6 from verse 9
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Ecclesiastes 3:9
Sense 1: Benefit or advantage. Sense 2: To benefit, improve, or advance.
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Third-person singular present form of work, meaning to labour, act, operate, perform, make, produce, accomplish, or bring about.
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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.
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In what or which place, thing, time, state, action, respect, or matter.
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8A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
8A time to loue, and a time to hate: a time of warre, and a time of peace.
9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
9*What profite hath hee that worketh, in that wherein he laboureth?
Selected passage10I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
10I haue seene the trauaile which God hath giuen to the sonnes of men, to be exercised in it.