Ecclesiastes 4:8

Tree of Life Version

There is one who has no one else, neither son nor brother, yet there is no end to all his toil. His eyes are not content with riches. “So, for whom am I toiling, and depriving myself of prosperity?” This too is meaningless— a grievous task!

Cross References

Genesis 2:18

Then Adonai Elohim said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. Let Me make a well-matched helper for him.”

Psalm 39:6

Behold, You made my days mere hand-breadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Surely all humanity is but vapor. Selah

Psalm 39:7

Everyone goes about as a mere phantom. Surely they are making an uproar in vain, heaping up stuff— yet not knowing who will gather it.

Proverbs 27:20

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and neither are the eyes of man.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I applied my heart to seek and examine by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a burdensome task God has given the sons of men to keep them occupied.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are wearisome. No one can express them. The eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 2:21

For sometimes a man, who has labored with wisdom, knowledge and skill, must hand over as an inheritance to someone who did not work for it. This also is futile and a great misfortune.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days, his work is pain and grief. Even at night his mind does not rest. This also is futility.

Ecclesiastes 4:7

Again I saw something futile under the sun:

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 5:9

A lover of money never has enough money, and a lover of wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is futile.

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house and merge field to field, until there is no room, and you will live alone in the midst of the land!

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you spend money for what is not bread? Your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen diligently to Me, and eat what is good, and delight yourself in abundance.

Matthew 11:28

Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! Tonight your soul is being demanded back from you! And what you have prepared, whose will that be?’

1 John 2:16

For everything in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the boasting of life—is not from the Father but from the world.