(A)What advantage does man have in all his work
Which he does under the sun?

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What do people gain from all their labors
    at which they toil under the sun?(A)

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What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

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(A)What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils?

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What do workers gain from their toil?(A)

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What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

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16 This also is a grievous evil—exactly as a man [a]is born, thus will he [b]die. So (A)what is the advantage to him who (B)toils for the wind?

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 5:16 Lit comes
  2. Ecclesiastes 5:16 Lit go

16 This too is a grievous evil:

As everyone comes, so they depart,
    and what do they gain,
    since they toil for the wind?(A)

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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?

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