Ecclesiastes 2:11

When I considered all that I had accomplished and what I had labored to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun and have found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What does a man gain for all his efforts
that he labors at under the sun?

Genesis 1:31

God saw all that He had made, and it was very good. Evening came and then morning: the sixth day.

Exodus 39:43

Moses inspected all the work they had accomplished. They had done just as the Lord commanded. Then Moses blessed them.

Ecclesiastes 2:17-23

Therefore, I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Habakkuk 2:13

Is it not from the Lord of Hosts
that the peoples labor only to fuel the fire
and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?

1 Timothy 6:6

But godliness with contentment is a great gain.

1 John 2:16-17

For everything that belongs to the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride in one’s lifestyle—is not from the Father, but is from the world.

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Summary

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

I looked

Behold

General references

Proverbs 14:13

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Ecclesiastes 3:9

Bible References