Ecclesiastes 1:3

All Toil Is Profitless And Repetitious

² Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. ³ What advantage does man have in all his work
Which he does under the sun?
⁴ A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

On Earth

Under the Sun

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What gain has the worker from his toil?

Ecclesiastes 5:16

This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind?

Ecclesiastes 2:22

What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun?

Proverbs 23:4-5

Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

But better than both is he who has not yet been and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:7

Again, I saw vanity under the sun:

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:11

Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 8:15-17

And I commend joy, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:13

I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?

Habakkuk 2:18

"What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

Mark 8:36-37

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

John 6:27

Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal."