Ecclesiastes 2:22
"For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?"
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It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
Give us this day our daily bread.
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.