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Ecclesiastes 3:9
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Ecclesiastes 3:9
9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
9*What profite hath hee that worketh, in that wherein he laboureth?
- Chap. 1.3.
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Ecclesiastes 3:9
Benefit or advantage; also to benefit, improve, or advance.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Works; acts, labours, produces, accomplishes, or operates.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
In which; in what thing, place, time, or respect.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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Open the full verse study3What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
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Open the full verse study16And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
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Open the full verse study23In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
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Open the full verse study11Then 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.
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Open the full verse study22For 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.
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Open the full verse study26For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
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