Ecclesiastes 5:16

The English Standar Version

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?

Cross References

Proverbs 11:29

Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

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

Ecclesiastes 2:11

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.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What gain has the worker from his toil?

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt,

Isaiah 26:18

we were pregnant, we writhed, but we have given birth to wind. We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth, and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, 'Where is the LORD?' Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds[1] transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and went after things that do not profit.

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it.

Mark 8:36

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

John 6:27

Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal."

1 Corinthians 16:16

be subject to such as these, and to every fellow worker and laborer.

1 Samuel 12:21

And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.