Ecclesiastes 5:16

New English Translation

This is another misfortune: Just as he came, so will he go. What did he gain from toiling for the wind?

Cross References

Proverbs 11:29

The one who troubles his family will inherit nothing, and the fool will be a servant to the wise person.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What benefit do people get from all the effort which they expend on earth?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Yet when I reflected on everything I had accomplished and on all the effort that I had expended to accomplish it, I concluded: “All these achievements and possessions are ultimately profitless – like chasing the wind! There is nothing gained from them on earth.”

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What benefit can a worker gain from his toil?

Ecclesiastes 5:13

Here is a misfortune on earth that I have seen: Wealth hoarded by its owner to his own misery.

Isaiah 26:18

We were pregnant, we strained, we gave birth, as it were, to wind. We cannot produce deliverance on the earth; people to populate the world are not born.

Jeremiah 2:8

Your priests did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord?’ Those responsible for teaching my law did not really know me. Your rulers rebelled against me. Your prophets prophesied in the name of the god Baal. They all worshiped idols that could not help them.

Hosea 8:7

They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.

Mark 8:36

For what benefit is it for a person to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his life?

John 6:27

Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life – the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.”

1 Corinthians 16:16

also to submit to people like this, and to everyone who cooperates in the work and labors hard.

1 Samuel 12:21

You should not turn aside after empty things that can’t profit and can’t deliver, since they are empty.