Ecclesiastes 2:11

Catholic Public Domain Version

But when I turned myself toward all the works that my hands had made, and to the labors in which I had perspired to no purpose, I saw emptiness and affliction of the soul in all things, and that nothing is permanent under the sun.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

And God saw everything that he had made. And they were very good. And it became evening and morning, the sixth day.

Exodus 39:43

After this, when Moses saw that everything was completed, he blessed them.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all that is done under the sun, and behold: all is emptiness and an affliction of the spirit.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I have dedicated my heart, so that I may know prudence and doctrine, and also error and foolishness. Yet I recognize that, in these things also, there is hardship, and affliction of the spirit.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What more does a man have from all his labor, as he labors under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What more does a man have from his labor?

Ecclesiastes 5:10

Where there are many riches, there will also be many to consume these things. And how does it benefit the one who possesses, except that he discerns the wealth with his own eyes?

Ecclesiastes 5:16

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

Habakkuk 2:13

Are not these things before the Lord of hosts? For the people will labor amid a great fire, and the nations will labor in emptiness, and they will fail.

1 Timothy 6:6

But piety with sufficiency is great gain.