Ecclesiastes 5:16

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

And this also is an evil thing which makes one to be sick, that in all, as he came, so shall he go. And what profit is to him who has labored for the wind?

Cross References

Proverbs 11:29

One troubling his house inherits the wind; and the foolish one is servant to the wise of heart.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What is the profit to a man in all his labor which he labors under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I faced on all my works that my hands had done, and on the labor that I had labored to do. And, behold, all is vanity and striving after wind, and there is no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What advantage is to him who works in that which he did as a laborer.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is an evil thing which I have seen under the sun, which makes one to be sick: riches being kept for its owner to his evil;

Isaiah 26:18

We conceived; we writhed; as it were, we gave birth to wind. We have not worked salvation for the earth; and those living in the world have not fallen.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, Where is Jehovah? And they who handle the Law did not know Me. And the shepherds transgressed against Me; and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after things not being profitable.

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they reap the storm wind. A stalk is not to him; the bud shall make no flour. If it does make it, strangers will swallow it up.

Mark 8:36

For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

John 6:27

Do not work for the food, the one perishing, but for the food, the one enduring to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give to you; for God the Father sealed Him.

1 Corinthians 16:16

See that you also may submit to such ones, and to everyone working and laboring with us.

1 Samuel 12:21

And do not turn aside to go after vanities which do not profit and do not deliver, for they are vanities.