Ecclesiastes 4:16

There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Cross References (11)

  • Ecclesiastes 1:14 (4)

    I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:17 (3)

    So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit

  • 1 Kings 1:40 (3)

    All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth was split by the sound.

  • 2 Samuel 15:12–13 (2)

    While Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, to come from his home

  • Ecclesiastes 2:11 (2)

    Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything

  • 1 Kings 12:10–16 (2)

    The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your fath

  • Judges 9:19–20 (2)

    if you have acted faithfully and honestly toward Jerubbaal and his house this day, then may you rejoice in Abimelech, an

  • 2 Samuel 19:9 (2)

    And all the people throughout the tribes of Israel were arguing, “The king rescued us from the hand of our enemies and d

  • 1 Kings 1:5–7 (2)

    At that time Adonijah, David’s son by Haggith, began to exalt himself, saying, “I will be king!” And he acquired chariot

  • 2 Samuel 18:7–8 (2)

    There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:26 (2)

    To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of