Ecclesiastes 5:16

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

Cross References

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.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

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

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?

Ecclesiastes 5:13

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

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.

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.

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.

Mark 8:36

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

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.”

1 Corinthians 16:16

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

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.