Ecclesiastes 5:16

This too is a grievous affliction: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?

Cross References (10)

  • Ecclesiastes 1:3 (6)

    What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?

  • Proverbs 11:29 (6)

    He who brings trouble on his house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

  • Mark 8:36 (4)

    What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

  • John 6:27 (3)

    Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For o

  • Ecclesiastes 5:13 (3)

    There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,

  • Jeremiah 2:8 (2)

    The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against

  • Hosea 8:7 (2)

    For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour.

  • Isaiah 26:18 (2)

    We were with child; we writhed in pain; but we gave birth to wind. We have given no salvation to the earth, nor brought

  • Ecclesiastes 2:22–23 (2)

    For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?

  • 1 Samuel 12:21 (2)

    Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.