Ecclesiastes 2:11

New International Version

Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how fleeting is my life. For what futility you have created all humanity!

Exodus 39:43

Moses inspected the work and saw that they had done it just as the Lord had commanded. So Moses blessed them.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What do workers gain from their toil?

Ecclesiastes 5:10

Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

This too is a grievous evil: As everyone comes, so they depart, and what do they gain, since they toil for the wind?

Habakkuk 2:13

Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?

1 Timothy 6:6

But godliness with contentment is great gain.