Ecclesiastes 5:16

Young's Literal Translation 1862

And this also `is' a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage `is' to him who laboureth for wind?

Cross References

Proverbs 11:29

Whoso is troubling his own house inheriteth wind, And a servant `is' the fool to the wise of heart.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What advantage `is' to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.

Isaiah 26:18

We have conceived, we have been pained. We have brought forth as it were wind, Salvation we do not work in the earth, Nor do the inhabitants of the world fall.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests have not said, `Where `is' Jehovah?' And those handling the law have not known Me. And the shepherds transgressed against Me, And the prophets have prophesied by Baal, And after those who profit not have gone.

Hosea 8:7

For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none -- a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield -- strangers do swallow it up.

Mark 8:36

for what shall it profit a man, if he may gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

John 6:27

work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal -- `even' God.'

1 Corinthians 16:16

that ye also be subject to such, and to every one who is working with `us' and labouring;

1 Samuel 12:21

and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they `are' vain,