Ecclesiastes 5:16
And this also is a great evil, that just as he came, so shall he go: and what profit has he who has labored for the wind?
Proverbs 11:29
He that troubles his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
Ecclesiastes 1:3
What profit has a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun?
1 Samuel 12:21
And turn you not aside: for then should you go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart, with which he has labored under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by their owners to their hurt.
Isaiah 26:18
We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were given birth to wind; we have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
Jeremiah 2:8
The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
Hosea 8:7
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: the stalk has no bud: it shall yield no meal: if so be it does yield, the aliens shall swallow it up.
Mark 8:36
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own life?
John 6:27
Labor not for the food which perishes, but for that food which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for on him has God the Father set his seal.