Ecclesiastes 2:11
Yet when I reflected on everything I had accomplished and on all the effort that I had expended to accomplish it, I concluded: "All these achievements and possessions are ultimately profitless -- like chasing the wind! There is nothing gained from them on earth."
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I reflected on everything that is accomplished by man on earth, and I concluded: Everything he has accomplished is futile -- like chasing the wind!
Ecclesiastes 1:3
What benefit do people get from all the effort which they expend on earth?
Genesis 1:31
God saw all that he had made -- and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.
Exodus 39:43
Moses inspected all the work -- and they had done it just as the Lord had commanded -- they had done it exactly -- and Moses blessed them.
Ecclesiastes 2:17-23
So I loathed life because what happens on earth seems awful to me; for all the benefits of wisdom are futile -- like chasing the wind.
Habakkuk 2:13
Be sure of this! The Lord who commands armies has decreed: The nations' efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.
1 Timothy 6:6
Now godliness combined with contentment brings great profit.
1 John 2:16-17
because all that is in the world (the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.