Verse 16

This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

Referenced Verses

• Prov 11:29 : 29 He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.
• Eccl 1:3 : 3 What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
• Eccl 2:22-23 : 22 For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun? 23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
• Eccl 5:13 : 13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
• Isa 26:18 : 18 We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
• Jer 2:8 : 8 The priests didn't say, 'Where is Yahweh?' and those who handle the law didn't know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
• Hos 8:7 : 7 For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
• Mark 8:36 : 36 For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
• John 6:27 : 27 Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."
• 1 Sam 12:21 : 21 Don't turn aside; for [then you would go] after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.