LABOR

Ecclesiastes 1:3  What profit has man of all his labor wherein he labors under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:10 And whatsoever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I did not withhold my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

Ecclesiastes 2:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:18 And I hated all my labor wherein I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man that shall be after me.

Ecclesiastes 2:19 And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool?  Yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun.  This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:20 Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:21 For there is a man whose l labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet to a man that has not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion.  This also is vanity and a great evil.

Ecclesiastes 2:22 For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he labors under the sun?

2:23 For all his days are but sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest.  This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:24 There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor.  This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 3:9  What profit has he that works in that wherein he labors?

Ecclesiastes 3:13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 4:4  Then I saw all labor and every skillful work, that a man does who is envious of his neighbor.  This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

4:5  The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.

Ecclesiastes 4:6  Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and striving after wind.

4:7  Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:8  There is one that is alone, and he has not a second; yes, he has neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches.  “For whom then,”  he said, “do I labor, and deprive my soul of good?”  This also is vanity, yes, it is a sore travail.

Ecclesiastes 4:9  Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

4:10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falls, and has not another to lift him up.

Ecclesiastes 5:12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not let him to sleep.

Ecclesiastes 5:16 And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go, and what profit has he that he labors for the wind?

5:17 All his days also he eats in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and has sickness and wrath.

Ecclesiastes 5:18 Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be comely is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, wherein he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him: for this is his portion.

Ecclesiastes 5:19 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor-this is the gift of God.

5:20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God  answers him in the joy of his heart.

Ecclesiastes 6:7  All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Ecclesiastes 8:15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that shall abide with him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

8:16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),

Ecclesiastes 8:17 then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yes moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

Ecclesiastes 9:9  Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor wherein you labor under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 10:15 The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he does not know how to go to the city.

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