What does a man acquire from all his labor and from the anxiety that accompanies his toil on earth? ¹ 

biblegateway Ecc 2:22

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

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

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

biblegateway Ecc 2:22

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

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

bibleoremus Ecc 2:22

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

What reward does anyone have for all his labour, his planning, and his toil here under the sun?

biblegateway Ecc 2:22

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

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

biblegateway Ecc 2:22

What does a man acquire from all his labor and from the anxiety that accompanies his toil on earth? ¹ 

¹ tn Heb “under the sun.” The rhetorical question is an example of negative affirmation, expecting a negative answer: “Man acquires nothing” (see E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, 949-51).