Ecclesiastes 5:16

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

Cross References

Proverbs 11:29

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

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing 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?

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

Isaiah 26:18

We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Jeremiah 2:8

The Kohanim didn't say, Where is the LORD? and those who handle the law didn't know me: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Ba`al, and walked after things that do not profit.

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

Mark 8:36

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

John 6:27

Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.*

1 Corinthians 16:16

that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.

1 Samuel 12:21

and don't turn aside; for [then would you go] after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.