A moment in scripture
Ecclesiastes 3:9
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What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
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The surrounding passage
- Ecclesiastes 3:7
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
- Ecclesiastes 3:8
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
- Ecclesiastes 3:10
I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
- Ecclesiastes 3:11
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.