Ecclesiastes 3:9
What benefit can a worker gain from his toil?
Ecclesiastes 1:3
What benefit do people get from all the effort which they expend on earth?
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 5:16
This is another misfortune: Just as he came, so will he go. What did he gain from toiling for the wind?
Proverbs 14:23
In all hard work there is profit, but merely talking about it only brings poverty.
Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
What does a man acquire from all his labor and from the anxiety that accompanies his toil on earth?
Matthew 16:26
For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?