Ecclesiastes 2:22 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

English ASV

For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?

English Amplified

For what has a man left from all his labor and from the striving and vexation of his heart in which he has toiled under the sun?

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

For what has a man left from all his labor and from the striving and vexation of his heart in which he has toiled under the sun?

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

For what does a person get with all his work and all his efforts that he labors at under the sun?

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

For what will man have of all his labour and of the striving of his heart, wherewith he hath wearied himself under the sun?

English EASY 2024

People have to do a lot of hard work on this earth and it causes them to worry. But in the end, they have nothing.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

What do people really have after all their work and struggling in this life?

What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun?

English GNT (Good News Translation)

You work and worry your way through life, and what do you have to show for it?

English God's Word - GW 1995

What do people get from all of their hard work and struggles under the sun?

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

For what does a man get with all his work and all his efforts that he labors with under the sun?

English KJV 1611

For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

English LSB

For what does a man get in all his labor and in the striving of his heart with which he labors under the sun?

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

What becomes a man for all his labor and striving in his heart with which he toils under the sun?

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

For what does a man get in all his labor and in his striving with which he labors under the sun?

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

For what profit comes to a man from all the toil and anxiety of heart with which he has labored under the sun?

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

What does a man acquire from all his labor and from the anxiety that accompanies his toil on earth?

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

What does a man get for all of his hard work on earth? What does he get for all of his worries?

English NIV

What does a man get for all the toil and anxious striving with which he labors under the sun?

English NKJ 1982

For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun?

English NLT

So what do people get for all their hard work?

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

What do mortals get from all the toil and strain with which they toil under the sun?

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

What has a man from all the toil and strain with which he toils beneath the sun?

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

So what does a man get for all his hard work?

English Tyndale 1537

For what getteth a man of all the labor and travail of his mind, that he taketh under the Sun,

Ecclesiastes 2:22 — Compare Translations