Ecclesiastes 5:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁶ This too is a sickening tragedy: exactly as he comes, so he will go. What does the one gain  who struggles for the wind?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And this also is a serious and severe evil–that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what gain has he who labors for the wind? [I Tim. 6:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that he laboreth for the wind?

Common English Bible

¹⁶ This too is a sickening tragedy: they must pass on just as they arrived. What then do they gain from working so hard for wind?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ All the days of his life he consumes: in darkness, and with many worries, and in distress as well as sadness.

Ecclesiastes 5:16 Cross References

Proverbs 11:29

The one who brings ruin on his household will inherit the wind, and a fool will be a slave to someone whose heart is wise.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What does a person gain for all his efforts that he labours at under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

When I considered all that I had accomplished  and what I had laboured to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind.  , There was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What does the worker gain from his struggles?

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a sickening tragedy I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

Isaiah 26:18

We became pregnant, we writhed in pain; we gave birth to wind. We have won no victories on earth, and the earth’s inhabitants have not fallen.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests stopped asking, ‘Where is the  Lord? ’ The experts in the law no longer knew me, and the rulers  rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by   Baal and followed useless idols.

Hosea 8:7

Indeed, they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. There is no standing corn; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it did, foreigners would swallow it up.

Mark 8:36

For what does it benefit   someone to gain   the whole world   and yet lose   his life?

John 6:27

Don’t work for the food that perishes   but for the food that lasts for eternal life,   which the Son of Man   will give you, because God the Father   has set his seal of approval on him.’

1 Corinthians 16:16

also to submit to such people, and to everyone who works and labours with them.

1 Samuel 12:21

Don’t turn away to follow worthless  things that can’t profit or rescue you; they are worthless.