Ecclesiastes 2:11

A Conservative Version

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do, and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit has man from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

1 Timothy 6:6

But piety with contentment is great gain,

Exodus 39:43

And Moses saw all the work, and, behold, they had done it, as LORD had commanded, even so they had done it. And Moses blessed them.

Genesis 1:31

And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not of LORD of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

Psalm 89:47

O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

Ecclesiastes 5:10

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit has he that he labored for the wind?