Ecclesiastes 5:16

New King James Version

And this also is a severe evil— Just exactly as he came, so shall he go. And what profit has he who has labored for the wind?

Cross References

Proverbs 11:29

He who troubles his own house will inherit the wind, And the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit has a man from all his labor In which he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done And on the labor in which I had toiled; And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What profit has the worker from that in which he labors?

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a severe evil which I have seen under the sun: Riches kept for their owner to his hurt.

Isaiah 26:18

We have been with child, we have been in pain; We have, as it were, brought forth wind; We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth, Nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’ And those who handle the law did not know Me; The rulers also transgressed against Me; The prophets prophesied by Baal, And walked after things that do not profit.

Hosea 8:7

“They sow the wind, And reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud; It shall never produce meal. If it should produce, Aliens would swallow it up.

Mark 8:36

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?

John 6:27

Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.”

1 Corinthians 16:16

that you also submit to such, and to everyone who works and labors with us.

1 Samuel 12:21

And do not turn aside; for then you would go after empty things which cannot profit or deliver, for they are nothing.