Ecclesiastes 5:16

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

Utterly it is a wretched sickness; as he came, so he shall turn again. What profiteth it to him, that he travailed into the wind?

Cross References

Proverbs 11:29

He that troubleth his house, shall have winds in possession; and he that is a fool, shall serve a wise man.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What hath a man more[over] of all his travail, by which he travaileth under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

And when I had turned me to all the works which mine hands had made, and to the travails in which I had sweated in vain, I saw in all things vanity and torment of soul, and that nothing under [the] sun dwelleth.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What hath a man more of his travail?

Ecclesiastes 5:13

Also another sickness is full evil, which I saw under the sun; riches be kept into the harm of their lord.

Isaiah 26:18

We have conceived, and we have as travailed of child, and we have childed the spirit of health; we did not rightfulness [or rightwiseness] in earth. Therefore the dwellers of [the] earth fell not down;

Jeremiah 2:8

Priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that held the law, knew not me; and shepherds trespassed against me, and prophets prophesied in Baal, and followed idols.

Hosea 8:7

For they shall sow wind, and they shall reap whirlwind. A stalk standing up is not in them, the seed shall not make meal; that if also it maketh meal, aliens shall eat it.

Mark 8:36

For what profiteth it to a man, if he win all the world, and do impairing to his [own] soul?

John 6:27

Work ye not meat that perisheth, but that that dwelleth into everlasting life, which meat man’s Son shall give to you; for God the Father hath marked him.

1 Corinthians 16:16

that also ye be subjects to such, and to each working together and travailing.

1 Samuel 12:21

and do not ye bow after vain things, that shall not profit you, neither they shall deliver you; for those [or they] be vain things.