Tree of Life Version
Ecclesiastes 3:10
10I have seen the task that God has given to the children of men to keep them occupied.
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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied.
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, then, does the laborer get with his toil? I have seen the task that God has given to the children of men to keep them occupied. 11He has made everything beautiful in its time. Moreover, He has set eternity in their heart—yet without the possibility that humankind can ever discover the work that God has done from the beginning to the end. 12I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and enjoy themselves in their lifetime.
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 a person gain in all his labor that he toils under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 2:11Yet when I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended to accomplish it, behold, it all was futile and chasing after the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 5:16So, all his days he eats in darkness, and he has much grief, sickness, and humiliation.
- Proverbs 14:23In all hard work there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
- Matthew 16:26For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world but forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange 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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