Ecclesiastes 5:16
This is also a painful tragedy: However a person comes, he also departs; so what does he gain as he labors after the wind?
Proverbs 11:29
Whoever troubles his household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be a servant to the wise.
Ecclesiastes 1:3
What does a man gain from all of the work that he undertakes on earth?
1 Samuel 12:21
Don't turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or deliver because they're useless.
Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
For what does a person gain from everything that he accomplishes and from his inner life struggles that he undergoes while working on earth?
Ecclesiastes 5:13
I have observed a painful tragedy on earth: Wealth hoarded by its owner harms him,
Isaiah 26:18
We were pregnant, writhing in pain, but we gave birth only to wind. We have not won your victory on earth, nor have the inhabitants of the world been born."
Jeremiah 2:8
"The priests didn't say, "Where is the LORD?' and those handling the Law didn't know me. The rulers transgressed against me, the prophets prophesied by Baal, and they followed that which does not profit.
Hosea 8:7
"Because they sow the wind, they will reap the wind storm. The plant has no stalk and its bud yields no grain. Even if there's a harvest, foreigners will gobble it up.
Mark 8:36
What profit will a person have if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life?
John 6:27
Do not work for food that perishes but for food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set his seal on him."