Ecclesiastes 5:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 1:21 : 21 With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.
  • Ps 49:17 : 17 For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.
  • 1 Tim 6:7 : 7 For we came into the world with nothing, and we are not able to take anything out;
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 5:16-17
    2 verses
    87%

    16All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

    17This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.

  • Eccl 5:13-14
    2 verses
    86%

    13And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

    14As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.

  • Job 1:21
    78%

    21With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.

  • Eccl 6:2-7
    6 verses
    77%

    2A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.

    3If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

    4In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.

    5Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.

    6And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?

    7All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.

  • 1 Tim 6:7
    76%

    7For we came into the world with nothing, and we are not able to take anything out;

  • Eccl 1:3
    74%

    3What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?

  • Job 14:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

    2He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

  • Eccl 2:21-23
    3 verses
    73%

    21Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.

    22What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?

    23All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.

  • Ps 39:6
    72%

    6Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

  • Eccl 3:9
    72%

    9What profit has the worker in the work which he does?

  • Eccl 4:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7Then I came back, and I saw an example of what is to no purpose under the sun.

    8It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.

  • Eccl 11:5
    72%

    5As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all.

  • Jer 20:18
    72%

    18Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

  • Eccl 12:7
    72%

    7And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

  • Job 15:29
    72%

    29He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

  • Ps 49:17
    71%

    17For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

  • Jer 17:11
    71%

    11Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.

  • Job 7:10
    71%

    10He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

  • Job 20:18
    71%

    18He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.

  • Ps 146:4
    71%

    4Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

  • Eccl 2:11
    71%

    11Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • Eccl 9:10
    71%

    10Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

  • Job 34:15
    71%

    15All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

  • Eccl 4:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15I saw all the living under the sun round the young man who was to be ruler in place of the king.

    16There was no end of all the people, of all those whose head he was, but they who come later will have no delight in him. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

  • Eccl 3:20
    71%

    20All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.

  • Prov 13:11
    70%

    11Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.

  • Gen 3:19
    70%

    19With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

  • Prov 6:11
    70%

    11Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

  • Eccl 3:22
    70%

    22So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?

  • Ps 129:7
    70%

    7He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.

  • Prov 5:11
    70%

    11And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;

  • Eccl 1:5
    69%

    5The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?

    12Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 2:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18Hate had I for all my work which I had done, because the man who comes after me will have its fruits.

    19And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.

  • Job 27:19
    69%

    19He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.

  • Prov 24:34
    69%

    34So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.