Ecclesiastes 5:16

A Conservative Version

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?

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:3

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

Proverbs 11:29

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. And a foolish man shall be servant to a wise man of heart.

John 6:27

Work not for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for God the Father put a seal on this man.

Mark 8:36

For what will it profit a man if he should gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The blade shall yield no meal. If so be it yields, strangers shall swallow it up.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, Where is LORD? and those who handle the law did not know me. The rulers also transgressed against me. And the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

Isaiah 26:18

We have been with child. We have been in pain. We have as it were brought forth wind. We have not wrought any deliverance in the earth, nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: Riches [were] kept by the owner of it to his hurt.

1 Samuel 12:21

And turn ye not aside after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

1 Corinthians 16:16

that ye also be subject to such men, and to every man working together and laboring.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

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.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

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