Ecclesiastes 2:22

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

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

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

So what do people get for all their hard work?

So what do you get from a life of hard labor?

What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?

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

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

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).