What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
The question asks what enduring benefit remains to the one who works from all that he does and from all the toil and labor of life. It belongs to the portrayal of human existence as empty, showing that human aims pursued without God accomplish nothing of worth. It is directed to life as lived in this fallen, sinful world.
The same language also holds true within Christian experience, where work includes putting to death the misdeeds of the body. There it includes breaking down the entrenched strongholds of sin by faith. There it includes hating what is evil.
The question asks what enduring benefit remains to the one who works from all that he does and from all the toil and labor of life. It belongs to the portrayal of human existence as empty, showing that human aims pursued without God accomplish nothing of worth. It is directed to life as lived in this fallen, sinful world.
The same language also holds true within Christian experience, where work includes putting to death the misdeeds of the body. There it includes breaking down the entrenched strongholds of sin by faith. There it includes hating what is evil.