Ecclesiastes 3:9

What does the worker gain from his struggles?

Ecclesiastes 1:3

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

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 5:16

This too is a sickening tragedy: exactly as he comes, so he will go. What does the one gain who struggles for the wind?

Proverbs 14:23

There is profit in all hard work,
but endless talk leads only to poverty.

Ecclesiastes 2:22-23

For what does a man get with all his work and all his efforts that he labors at under the sun?

Matthew 16:26

What will it benefit a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

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