What
x4100 (4100) Complementמָּהmah{maw}
A primitive particle; properly interrogitive what? (including how?, why? and when?); but also exclamations like what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational senses.
profit
3504 {3504} Primeיִתְרוֹןyithrown{yith-rone'}
From H3498; preeminence, gain.
hath he that worketh
6213 {6213} Primeעָשָׂה`asah{aw-saw'}
A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.
z8802 <8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Participle Active (See H8814) Count - 5386
in that wherein
834 {0834} Primeאֲשֶׁר'asher{ash-er'}
A primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number); who, which, what, that; also (as adverb and conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
he
x1931 (1931) Complementהוּאhuw'{hoo}
The second form is the feminine beyond the Pentateuch; a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular, he ( she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are.
laboureth?
6001 {6001} Primeעָמֵל`amel{aw-male'}
From H5998; toiling; concretely a laborer; figuratively sorrowful. |
Ecclesiastes 3:9
_ _ But these earthly pursuits, while lawful in their season, are “unprofitable” when made by man, what God never intended them to be, the chief good. Solomon had tried to create an artificial forced joy, at times when he ought rather to have been serious; the result, therefore, of his labor to be happy, out of God’s order, was disappointment. “A time to plant” (Ecclesiastes 3:2) refers to his planting (Ecclesiastes 2:5); “laugh” (Ecclesiastes 3:4), to Ecclesiastes 2:1, Ecclesiastes 2:2; “his mirth,” “laughter”; “build up,” “gather stones” (Ecclesiastes 3:3, Ecclesiastes 3:5), to his “building” (Ecclesiastes 2:4); “embrace,” “love,” to his “princess” (see on Ecclesiastes 2:8); “get” (perhaps also “gather,” Ecclesiastes 3:5, Ecclesiastes 3:6), to his “gathering” (Ecclesiastes 2:8). All these were of “no profit,” because not in God’s time and order of bestowing happiness. |
Ecclesiastes 3:9
What profit — Seeing then all events are out of man's power, and no man can do or enjoy any thing at his pleasure, but only when God pleaseth, as has been shewed in many particulars, and is as true and certain in all others, hence it follows, that all men's labours, without God's blessing, are unprofitable, and utterly insufficient to make them happy. |
Ecclesiastes 1:3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
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.
Ecclesiastes 2:22- 23 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? ... For all his days [ are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
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?
Proverbs 14:23 In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips [ tendeth] only to penury.
Matthew 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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