Ecclesiastes 5:15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

As they came from their mother’s womb, so they shall go again, naked as they came; they shall take nothing for their toil that they may carry away with their hands.

Cross References

Job 1:21

He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Job 15:2

“Should the wise answer with windy knowledge and fill themselves with the east wind?

Psalm 49:17

For when they die they will carry nothing away; their wealth will not go down after them.

Ecclesiastes 5:14

and those riches were lost in a bad venture; though they are parents of children, they have nothing in their hands.

Hosea 12:2

The Lord has an indictment against Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

1 Timothy 6:7

for we brought nothing into the world, so that we can take nothing out of it,