Ecclesiastes 5:16

Contemporary English Version 1995

That's terribly unfair. They leave the world just as they came. They gained nothing from running after the wind.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What is there to show for all of our hard work here on this earth?

Proverbs 11:29

Fools who cause trouble in the family won't inherit a thing. They will end up as slaves of someone with good sense.

John 6:27

Don't work for food that spoils. Work for food that gives eternal life. The Son of Man will give you this food, because God the Father has given him the right to do so.”

Mark 8:36

What will you gain, if you own the whole world but destroy yourself?

Hosea 8:7

If you scatter wind instead of wheat, you will harvest a whirlwind and have no wheat. Even if you harvest grain, enemies will steal it all.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests who teach my laws don't care to know me. Your leaders rebel against me; your prophets give messages from Baal and worship false gods.

Isaiah 26:18

But instead of having a child, our terrible pain produced only wind. We have won no victories, and we have no descendants to take over the earth.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

I have seen something terribly unfair. People get rich, but it does them no good.

1 Samuel 12:21

Don't worship idols! They don't have any power, and they can't help you or save you when you're in trouble.

1 Corinthians 16:16

to obey leaders like them and to do the same for all others who work hard with you.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I thought about everything I had done, including the hard work, and it was simply chasing the wind. Nothing on earth is worth the trouble.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What do we gain by all our hard work?