World English Bible
Ecclesiastes 3:9
“What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 3
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a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
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a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
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What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?
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I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
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He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
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