English Standard Version
Ecclesiastes 3:10
10I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.
Ecclesiastes 3:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
- New International Version (NIV)I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I have seen the burden God has placed on us all.
Context of Ecclesiastes 3:10
8a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. 9What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. 11He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. 12I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;
Read all of Ecclesiastes 3Ecclesiastes 3:10 word by word
רָאִ֣יתִי אֶת־הָֽעִנְיָ֗ן אֲשֶׁ֨ר נָתַ֧ן אֱלֹהִ֛ים לִבְנֵ֥י הָאָדָ֖ם לַעֲנ֥וֹת בּֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Ecclesiastes 3:10
- Ecclesiastes 1:3What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 2:11Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 5:16This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind?
- Proverbs 14:23In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
- Matthew 16:26For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
Commentaries on Ecclesiastes 3:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10I have seen the travail - Man is a sinner; and, because he is such, he suffers.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10the burden that God has laid upon the sons of men: God made our work harder after humans rebelled against Him (Genesis 3:17–19). This burden is not too heavy for us to enjoy our work and its rewards (Ecclesiastes 3:11213).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. (See on Ec 1:13).Read the comment
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Ecclesiastes 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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