Ecclesiastes 5:16

Tree of Life Version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 11:29

Whoever troubles his own household will inherit wind, and the fool will be a servant to the wise-hearted.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

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

Ecclesiastes 2:11

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.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

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

Ecclesiastes 5:13

or wealth lost in a bad investment, and when he fathers a son, there is nothing in his hand.

Isaiah 26:18

We have been with child, we have been in pain, yet we gave birth to wind. We are accomplishing no deliverance for the earth, nor are inhabitants of the world coming to life.

Jeremiah 2:8

The kohanim did not ask, ‘Where is Adonai?’ The Torah experts did not know Me. The shepherds rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and went after unprofitable things.

Hosea 8:7

“For they sow wind, and reap a whirlwind. There is no mature grain— the sprout yields no meal. Should it produce anything, strangers would swallow it up.

Mark 8:36

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

John 6:27

Don’t work for food that spoils, 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 put the seal of approval.”

1 Corinthians 16:16

also to submit to people such as these, and to everyone working together and laboring.

1 Samuel 12:21

Do not turn aside to go after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are futile.