Ecclesiastes 2:11

The English Standar Version

Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

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

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!

Exodus 39:43

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

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.[7]

Ecclesiastes 1:17

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

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What gain has the worker from his toil?

Ecclesiastes 5:10

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind?

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?

1 Timothy 6:6

Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment,