Ecclesiastes 1:3 Parallel Translations
NASB: What advantage does man have in all his work Which he does under the sun? (NASB ©1995)
GWT: What do people gain from all their hard work under the sun?(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
ASV: What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth under the sun?
BBE: What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?
DBY: What profit hath man of all his labour wherewith he laboureth under the sun?
ERV: What profit hath man of all his labour wherein he laboureth under the sun?
JPS: What profit hath man of all his labour wherein he laboureth under the sun?
WBS: What profit hath a man of all his labor, which he taketh under the sun?
WEB: What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
YLT: What advantage is to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 1:3 Cross References
XREF:Ecclesiastes 2:11 Thus I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold all was vanity and striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:9 What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils?

Ecclesiastes 5:16 This also is a grievous evil-- exactly as a man is born, thus will he die. So what is the advantage to him who toils for the wind? (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 1:3 What profit hath a man of all his {c} labour which he taketh under the sun?
(c) Solomon does not condemn man's labour or diligence, but shows that there is no full contentment in anything under the heavens, nor in any creature, as all things are transitory.
WES: 1:3 What profit - What real and abiding benefit? None at all. All is unprofitable as to the attainment of that happiness which all men are enquiring after. His labour - Heb. his toilsome labour, both of body and mind in the pursuit of riches, or pleasures, or other earthly things. Under the sun - In all worldly matters, which are usually transacted in the day time, or by the light of the sun. By this restriction he implies that the happiness which in vain is sought for in this lower world, is really to be found in heavenly places and things.
MHC: 1:1-3 Much is to be learned by comparing one part of Scripture with another. We here behold Solomon returning from the broken and empty cisterns of the world, to the Fountain of living water; recording his own folly and shame, the bitterness of his disappointment, and the lessons he had learned. Those that have taken warning to turn and live, should warn others not to go on and die. He does not merely say all things are vain, but that they are vanity. VANITY OF VANITIES, ALL IS VANITY. This is the text of the preacher's sermon, of which in this book he never loses sight. If this world, in its present state, were all, it would not be worth living for; and the wealth and pleasure of this world, if we had ever so much, are not enough to make us happy. What profit has a man of all his labour? All he gets by it will not supply the wants of the soul, nor satisfy its desires; will not atone for the sins of the soul, nor hinder the loss of it: what profit will the wealth of the world be to the soul in death, in judgment, or in the everlasting state?
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