Ecclesiastes 5:15

Tree of Life Version

This too is a grievous wrong. Just as he came, so will he go, so what does he gain, from his toiling for the wind?

Cross References

Job 1:21

Then he said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. Adonai gave and Adonai has taken away; blessed be the Name of Adonai.”

Job 15:2

“Does a wise man answer with empty knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?

Psalm 49:17

Do not be afraid when a man gets rich, when his house’s splendor increases.

Ecclesiastes 5:14

As he came from his mother’s womb, naked he will return as he came. He takes nothing from his labor that he can carry in his hand.

Hosea 12:2

Ephraim is grazing on wind and pursuing the east wind. All day he multiplies lies and ruin: making a pact with Assyria, while carrying oil to Egypt.

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 Timothy 6:7

For we brought nothing into this world, So we cannot take anything out of it.