Ecclesiastes 5:15

New American Bible - revised edition

This too is a grievous evil, that they go just as they came. What then does it profit them to toil for the wind?

Cross References

Job 1:21

He said, “Naked I came forth from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I go back there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord!”

Job 15:2

Does a wise man answer with windy opinions, or puff himself up with the east wind?

Psalm 49:17

Do not fear when a man becomes rich, when the wealth of his house grows great.

Ecclesiastes 5:14

As they came forth from their mother’s womb, so again shall they return, naked as they came, having nothing from their toil to bring with them.

Hosea 12:2

Ephraim shepherds the wind, and pursues the east wind all day long. He multiplies lies and violence: They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?’

1 Timothy 6:7

For we brought nothing into the world, just as we shall not be able to take anything out of it.