Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
General references
Bible References
A sore
Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being hoarded by their owner to his hurt.
Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what does a man get in all his labor and in his striving with which he labors under the sun?
What
1 Samuel 12:21
You must not turn aside, for then you would go after futile things which can not profit or deliver, because they are futile.
Jeremiah 2:8 “The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’
And those who handle the lawdid not know Me;
Therulers also transgressed against Me,
And theprophets prophesied by Baal
And walked afterthings that did not profit.
And those who handle the law
The
And the
And walked after
Mark 8:36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?
For
Ecclesiastes 1:3 What advantage does man have in all his work
Which he does under the sun?
Which he does under the sun?
Proverbs 11:29 He who troubles his own house will inherit wind,
Andthe foolish will be servant to the wisehearted.
And
Isaiah 26:18 We were pregnant, we writhed in labor,
Wegave birth, as it seems, only to wind.
We could not accomplish deliverance for the earth,
Nor wereinhabitants of the world born.
We
We could not accomplish deliverance for the earth,
Nor were
Hosea 8:7 For they sow the wind
And they reap thewhirlwind.
The standing grain has noheads;
It yieldsno grain.
Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.
And they reap the
The standing grain has no
It yields
Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.
John 6:27 Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal.”
General references
Ecclesiastes 3:9 What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils?