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Ecclesiastes 3

Eccl. 3:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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What profit
yithrown (Hebrew #3504)
preeminence, gain
KJV usage: better, excellency(-leth), profit(-able).
Pronounce: yith-rone'
Origin: from 3498
hath he that worketh
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
in that wherein
'aher (Hebrew #834)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
KJV usage: X after, X alike, as (soon as), because, X every, for, + forasmuch, + from whence, + how(-soever), X if, (so) that ((thing) which, wherein), X though, + until, + whatsoever, when, where (+ -as, -in, -of, -on, -soever, -with), which, whilst, + whither(- soever), who(-m, -soever, -se). As it is indeclinable, it is often accompanied by the personal pronoun expletively, used to show the connection.
Pronounce: ash-er'
Origin: a primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number)
he laboreth
`amel (Hebrew #6001)
toiling; concretely, a laborer; figuratively, sorrowful
KJV usage: that laboureth, that is a misery, had taken (labour), wicked, workman.
Pronounce: aw-male'
Origin: from 5998
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Eccl. 1:3• 3What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun? (Eccl. 1:3)
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Eccl. 2:11,22‑23• 11Then 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 vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
 22For what hath man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath labored under the sun?
 23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. (Eccl. 2:11,22‑23)
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Eccl. 5:16• 16And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath labored for the wind? (Eccl. 5:16)
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Prov. 14:23• 23In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. (Prov. 14:23)
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Matt. 16:26• 26For 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? (Matt. 16:26)
• But then if nothing thus rests as it is, it becomes a necessary deduction that, if wisdom has collected, and labored, and built, folly will follow to possess and scatter, what profit then in toiling? (“Ecclesiastes 3” by F.C. Jennings)

J. N. Darby Translation

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What profit hath he that worketh from that wherein he labouretha?

JND Translation Notes

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Or "from the labour with which he worries himself."