Ecclesiastes 5:16 - King James 2000

¹⁶ And this also is a great evil, that just as he came, so shall he go: and what profit has he who has labored for the wind?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And this also is a serious and severe evil–that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what gain has he who labors for the wind? [I Tim. 6:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that he laboreth for the wind?

Common English Bible

¹⁶ This too is a sickening tragedy: they must pass on just as they arrived. What then do they gain from working so hard for wind?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ All the days of his life he consumes: in darkness, and with many worries, and in distress as well as sadness.

Ecclesiastes 5:16 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 11:29

He that troubles his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit has a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had made, and on the labor that I had expended on it: and, behold, all was vanity and like grasping the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What profit has he that works in that in which he labors?

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by their owners to their hurt.

Isaiah 26:18

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were given birth to wind; we have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

Hosea 8:7

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: the stalk has no bud: it shall yield no meal: if so be it does yield, the aliens shall swallow it up.

Mark 8:36

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own life?

John 6:27

Labor not for the food which perishes, but for that food which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for on him has God the Father set his seal.

1 Corinthians 16:16

That you submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that works with us, and labors.

1 Samuel 12:21

And turn you not aside: for then should you go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.