Ecclesiastes 2:22
Modern Translations
New International Version
What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?

New Living Translation
So what do people get in this life for all their hard work and anxiety?

English Standard Version
What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun?

Berean Study Bible
For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?

New American Standard Bible
For what does a person get in all his labor and in his striving with which he labors under the sun?

NASB 1995
For what does a man get in all his labor and in his striving with which he labors under the sun?

NASB 1977
For what does a man get in all his labor and in his striving with which he labors under the sun?

Amplified Bible
For what does a man get from all his labor and from the striving and sorrow of his heart with which he labors under the sun?

Christian Standard Bible
For what does a person get with all his work and all his efforts that he labors at under the sun?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For what does a man get with all his work and all his efforts that he labors at under the sun?

Contemporary English Version
What do we really gain from all of our hard work?

Good News Translation
You work and worry your way through life, and what do you have to show for it?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
What do people get from all of their hard work and struggles under the sun?

International Standard Version
For what does a person gain from everything that he accomplishes and from his inner life struggles that he undergoes while working on earth?

NET Bible
What does a man acquire from all his labor and from the anxiety that accompanies his toil on earth?
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

New King James Version
For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun?

King James 2000 Bible
For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart, with which he has labored under the sun?

New Heart English Bible
For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?

World English Bible
For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?

American King James Version
For what has man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he has labored under the sun?

American Standard Version
For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?

A Faithful Version
For what has man from all his labor, and from the striving of his heart, in which he has labored under the sun?

Darby Bible Translation
For what will man have of all his labour and of the striving of his heart, wherewith he hath wearied himself under the sun?

English Revised Version
For what hath a man of all his labour, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboureth under the sun?

Webster's Bible Translation
For what hath man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, in which he hath labored under the sun?

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For what hath man of all his trauaile and griefe of his heart, wherein he hath trauailed vnder the sunne?

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For what getteth a man of all the labour and trauayle of his mynde that he taketh vnder the sunne?

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For what getteth a ma of all ye labor & trauayle of his mynde, yt he taketh vnder the Sonne,
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
For what has been to a man by all his labor, and by the thought of his heart that he labored at under the sun?

Young's Literal Translation
For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

Smith's Literal Translation
For what was to man in all his labor, and in the striving of his heart, he labored under the sun?

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he bath been tormented under the sun?

Catholic Public Domain Version
For how can a man benefit from all his labor and affliction of spirit, by which he has been tormented under the sun?

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And what does a son of man have in all his labor and in the desire of his heart which he wrought under the sun?

Lamsa Bible
For what profit shall a man have of all his labor and of the desire of his heart wherein he has labored under the sun?

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For what hath a man of all his labour, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboureth under the sun?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For it happens to a man in all his labour, and in the purpose of his heart wherein he labours under the sun.
















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