Ecclesiastes 1:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 1:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 3:9
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 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?
Ecclesiastes 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.
Mark 8:36-37
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-3)

Here is, I. An account of the penman of this book; it was Solomon, for no other son of David was king of Jerusalem; but he conceals his name Solomon, peaceable, because by his sin he had brought trouble upon himself and his kingdom, had broken his peace with God and lost the peace of his conscience, and therefore was no more worthy of that name. Call me not Solomon, call me Marah, for, behold, for…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. What profit ... labour--that is, “What profit” as to the chief good (Mt 16:26). Labor is profitable in its proper place (Ge 2:15; 3:19; Pr 14:23). under the sun--that is, in this life, as opposed to the future world. The phrase often recurs, but only in Ecclesiastes.