Ecclesiastes 2:11

Tree of Life Version

Yet when I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended to accomplish it, behold, it all was futile and chasing after the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

So God saw everything that He made, and behold it was very good. So there was evening and there was morning—the sixth day.

Psalm 89:47

How long, Adonai, will You hide Yourself? Forever? Will Your fury keep burning like fire?

Exodus 39:43

When Moses saw the entire work, and that they had done it just as Adonai had commanded, Moses blessed them.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the deeds done under the sun; and behold, all is meaningless and chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

So I applied my heart to know wisdom as well as to know madness and folly. I learned that this too was pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What does a person gain in all his labor that he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What gain, then, does the laborer get with his toil?

Ecclesiastes 5:10

When goods increase, so do those who consume them. So what advantage are they to the owner except he sees it with his eyes?

Ecclesiastes 5:16

So, all his days he eats in darkness, and he has much grief, sickness, and humiliation.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not from Adonai-Tzva’ot that peoples toil to fuel a fire, and nations exhaust themselves for emptiness?

1 Timothy 6:6

Now godliness with contentment is great gain.