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Ecclesiastes 2:22

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Painful Days and Restless Nights

2:22What does a man acquire from all his labor

and from the anxiety that accompanies his toil on earth?101

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Footnotes

  1. 101 Heb “under the sun.” The rhetorical question is an example of negative affirmation, expecting a negative answer: “Man acquires nothing” (see E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, ).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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

NIVNew International Version (2011)

What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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

NLTNew Living Translation

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

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For what does a person receive for all his toil and in the longing of his heart with which he toils under the sun?

KJV 1900King James Version

For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?