Ecclesiastes 5:16

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

Proverbs 11:29

He that troubles his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit has a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had worked, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What profit has he that works in that wherein he labors?

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

Isaiah 26:18

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

Hosea 8:7

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

Mark 8:36

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

John 6:27

Labor not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give to you: for him has God the Father sealed.

1 Corinthians 16:16

That you submit yourselves to such, and to every one that helps with us, and labors.

1 Samuel 12:21

And turn you not aside: for then should you go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.