7 Bible Verses about Toiling In Vain

I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.

What advantage is to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, the wall of Babylon -- The broad one -- is utterly made bare, And her high gates with fire are burnt, And peoples labour in vain, And nations in fire, and have been weary!

They sowed wheat, and have thorns reaped, They have become sick -- they profit not, And they have been ashamed of your increases, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah.

There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and he saith not, 'For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

Lo, is it not from Jehovah of Hosts And peoples are fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary?