Ecclesiastes 1:3

Christian Standard Bible

³What does a person gain for all his efforts
that he labors at under the sun?^(A)

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Ecclesiastes 2:11

Christian Standard Bible

¹¹When I considered all that I had accomplished^[a] and what I had labored to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind.^[b]^(A) There was nothing to be gained under the sun.^(B)

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Footnotes

2:11 Lit all my works that my hands had done
2:11 Or a feeding on wind, or an affliction of spirit; also in vv. 17,26

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