Ecclesiastes 1:3

Ecclesiastes 1:3
What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?

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Genesis 3:19
With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

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Ecclesiastes 1:9
That which has been, is that which is to be, and that which has been done, is that which will be done, and there is no new thing under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:1
And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 4:3
Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.

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Ecclesiastes 5:2
Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.

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Ecclesiastes 5:9
It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.

Ecclesiastes 7:12
Wisdom keeps a man from danger even as money does; but the value of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to its owner.

Ecclesiastes 10:10
If the iron has no edge, and he does not make it sharp, then he has to put out more strength; but wisdom makes things go well.

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Ecclesiastes 2:10
And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.

Ecclesiastes 2:18
Hate had I for all my work which I had done, because the man who comes after me will have its fruits.

Ecclesiastes 2:23
All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 5:17
All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

Ecclesiastes 5:18
This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.

Ecclesiastes 6:8
What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?

Ecclesiastes 9:6
Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:9
Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.

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Ecclesiastes 3:1
For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:7
Then I came back, and I saw an example of what is to no purpose under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 8:9
All this have I seen, and have given my heart to all the work which is done under the sun: there is a time when man has power over man for his destruction.

Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),

Ecclesiastes 8:17
Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.

Ecclesiastes 9:13
This again I have seen under the sun as wisdom and it seemed great to me.

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Ecclesiastes 6:1
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;

Ecclesiastes 10:5
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, like an error which comes by chance from a ruler:

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Mark 8:36
What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life?

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