Ecclesiastes 2:11

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

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

Psalm 89:47

O remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

Exodus 39:43

And Moses saw all the work, and, behold, they had done it; as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit hath man of all his labour wherein he laboureth under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

Ecclesiastes 5:10

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that he laboureth for the wind?

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

1 Timothy 6:6

But godliness with contentment is great gain: