Ecclesiastes 5:16

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

And also this an evil making sick, wholly as he came so shall he go: and what to him he shall labor for the wind?

Cross References

Proverbs 11:29

He troubling his house shall inherit wind: and the foolish is servant to the wise of heart

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What the profit to a man in all the labor he will labor under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

And I looked upon all my works my hands made, and upon the labor I labored to do, and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit, and no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What the excellence of him working in what he labored?

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is an evil making sick I saw under the sun: riches watched to its owners for their evil.

Isaiah 26:18

We conceived, we were pained, thus we brought forth wind; we shall not make the earth salvation, the inhabitants of the habitable globe shall not fall.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests said not Where is Jehovah? and they holding the law knew me not: and the shepherds transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and they went After what will not profit

Hosea 8:7

For they shall sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: no stalk to it: the sprout shall not make flour: perhaps it will make, strangers will swallow it down.

Mark 8:36

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

John 6:27

Work not for food perishing, but food remaining to eternal life, which the Son of man will give you: for him God the Father sealed.

1 Corinthians 16:16

That also ye be subjected to such, and to every one cooperating, and to the wearied.

1 Samuel 12:21

And ye shall not turn aside: for after vanities which will not profit, and they will not deliver, for they are vanities.