Verse 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?

Referenced Verses

• Prov 11:29 : 29 ¶ He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool [shall be] servant to the wise of heart.
• Eccl 1:3 : 3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
• Eccl 2:22-23 : 22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? 23 For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
• Eccl 5:13 : 13 There is a sore evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
• Isa 26:18 : 18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
• Jer 2:8 : 8 The priests said not, Where [is] the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after [things that] do not profit.
• Hos 8:7 : 7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
• Mark 8:36 : 36 ‹For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?›
• John 6:27 : 27 ‹Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.›
• 1 Sam 12:21 : 21 And turn ye not aside: for [then should ye go] after vain [things], which cannot profit nor deliver; for they [are] vain.