Ecclesiastes 5:16
And this also is a sore evil, that in all, as he came, so shall he go; and what profit does he have who has labored for the wind?
Proverbs 11:29
He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind; and the fool shall be servant to the wise in heart.
Ecclesiastes 1:3
What is the profit to a man in all his labor which he labors under the sun?
1 Samuel 12:21
And do not turn aside to go after vanities, which cannot profit nor deliver. For they are vain.
Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
For what has man from all his labor, and from the troubling of his heart, in which he has labored under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for their owners to their hurt.
Isaiah 26:18
We conceived; we have been in pain, we gave birth to wind. We have not brought about any salvation in the earth; nor have the people of the world fallen.
Jeremiah 2:8
The priests did not say, Where is Jehovah? And they who handle the Law did not know Me; the shepherds also rebelled against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things not profitable.
Hosea 8:7
For they sow the wind, and they reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal; if it does yield, strangers 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 soul?
John 6:27
Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for that food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you. For God the Father sealed Him.