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

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(A)What (B)does man gain by all the toil
    at which he toils under the sun?

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It is in vain that you rise up early
    and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious (A)toil;
    for he gives to his (B)beloved (C)sleep.

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(A)casting all your anxieties on him, because (B)he cares for you.

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But (A)if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.

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(A)do not be anxious about anything, (B)but in everything by prayer and supplication (C)with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

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34 (A)“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

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(A)Better is a handful of (B)quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.

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The God-Given Task

What (A)gain has the worker from his toil?

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26 For (A)what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or (B)what shall a man give in return for his soul?

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11 (A)Give us (B)this day our daily bread,[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 6:11 Or our bread for tomorrow

15 And I commend joy, for man (A)has nothing better under the sun but to (B)eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.

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(A)All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.[a] For what advantage has the wise man (B)over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living?

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  1. Ecclesiastes 6:7 Hebrew filled

17 Moreover, all his days he (A)eats in darkness in much vexation and sickness and anger.

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10 He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity. 11 When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes?

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one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his (A)eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, (B)“For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy (C)business.

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29 And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor (A)be worried.

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Do Not Be Anxious

22 And he said to his disciples, (A)“Therefore I tell you, (B)do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on.

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Do Not Be Anxious

25 (A)“Therefore I tell you, (B)do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

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26 A worker's appetite works for him;
    his (A)mouth urges him on.

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