Ecclesiastes 5:16

New International Version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 11:29

Whoever brings ruin on their family will inherit only wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

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

Ecclesiastes 2:11

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.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What do workers gain from their toil?

Ecclesiastes 5:13

I have seen a grievous evil under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owners,

Isaiah 26:18

We were with child, we writhed in labor, but we gave birth to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth, and the people of the world have not come to life.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord?’ Those who deal with the law did not know me; the leaders rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal, following worthless idols.

Hosea 8:7

“They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up.

Mark 8:36

What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?

John 6:27

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

1 Corinthians 16:16

to submit to such people and to everyone who joins in the work and labors at it.

1 Samuel 12:21

Do not turn away after useless idols. They can do you no good, nor can they rescue you, because they are useless.