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Ecc 3:9 — What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Entire Verse.		Ecc 1:3; Ecc 2:11,22,23; Ecc 5:16; Pro 14:23; Mat 16:26

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Related Verses

	Ecc 1:3	What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
	Ecc 2:11	Then 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.
	Ecc 2:22	For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
	Ecc 2:23	For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
	Ecc 5:16	And 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?
	Pro 14:23	In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips [tendeth] only to penury.
	Mat 16:26	For 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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Scott, Thomas. "Ecclesiastes 3:9," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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