Ecclesiastes 5:16

New American Bible - revised edition

All their days they eat in gloom with great vexation, sickness and resentment.

Cross References

Proverbs 11:29

Those who trouble their household inherit the wind, and fools become slaves to the wise of heart.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit have we from all the toil which we toil at under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

But when I turned to all the works that my hands had wrought, and to the fruit of the toil for which I had toiled so much, see! all was vanity and a chase after wind. There is no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What profit have workers from their toil?

Ecclesiastes 5:13

Should the riches be lost through some misfortune, they may have offspring when they have no means.

Isaiah 26:18

We conceived and writhed in pain, giving birth only to wind; Salvation we have not achieved for the earth, no inhabitants for the world were born.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not ask, “Where is the Lord?” The experts in the law did not know me: the shepherds rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after useless idols.

Hosea 8:7

When they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind; The stalk of grain that forms no head can yield no flour; Even if it could, strangers would swallow it.

Mark 8:36

What profit is there for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

John 6:27

Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him the Father, God, has set his seal.”

1 Corinthians 16:16

be subordinate to such people and to everyone who works and toils with them.

1 Samuel 12:21

Do not turn aside to gods who are nothing, who cannot act and deliver. They are nothing.