Quotes about Work
What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 1:3
Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.
- Ecclesiastes 2:10
So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 2:17
I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
- Ecclesiastes 2:18
And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 2:19
When there is a man who has labored with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and he must give his portion to a man who has not worked for it, this too is futile and a great evil.
- Ecclesiastes 2:21
For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 2:22
What does the worker gain from his toil?
- Ecclesiastes 3:9
and also that every man should eat and drink and find satisfaction in all his labor—this is the gift of God.
- Ecclesiastes 3:13
I have seen that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will come after him?
- Ecclesiastes 3:22
Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 4:6
This too is a grievous evil: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?
- Ecclesiastes 5:16