Ecclesiastes 5:15 - English Standard Version 2016

¹⁵ As he came from his mother’s womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ As [the man] came forth from his mother's womb, so he will go again, naked as he came; and he will take away nothing for all his labor which he can carry in his hand.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ As he came forth from his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Just as they came from their mother’s womb naked, naked they’ll return, ending up just like they started. All their hard work produces nothing—nothing they can take with them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ It is an utterly miserable infirmity that, in the same manner as he has arrived, so shall he return. How then does it benefit him, since he has labored for the wind?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall he return. What then doth it profit him that he hath laboured for the wind?

Ecclesiastes 5:15 Tagairtí Cros

Job 1:21

And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Job 15:2

“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Psalm 49:17

For when he dies he will carry nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

Ecclesiastes 5:14

and those riches were lost in a bad venture. And he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand.

Hosea 12:2

The Lord has an indictment against Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways; he will repay him according to his deeds.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

1 Timothy 6:7

for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.