Ecclesiastes 5:16

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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?

A sore

Ecclesiastes 5:13

Ecclesiastes 2:22

What

1 Samuel 12:21

Jeremiah 2:8

Mark 8:36

For

John 6:27

General references

Ecclesiastes 3:9

Bible References

A sore

Here was an incurable evil, I had seen under the sun, riches kept by the owner thereof, to his hurt;

For what hath the man for all his toil, and for the striving of his heart, - wherein, he himself, toiled under the sun?

What

and turn not aside after vanities, that can neither profit nor deliver, because, vanities, they are.

The priests, said not Where is Yahweh? And, they who handled the law, did not acknowledge me, And the shepherds transgressed against me, - And the prophets, prophesied by Baal, And so after things that could not profit, did they walk.

For, what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and be made to forfeit his life?

For

What profit hath Man, in all his toil wherewith he toileth under the sun?

He that troubleth his own house, shall inherit the wind, but, a servant, shall the foolish be, to the wise in heart.

We were with child - We were in pain, As it were we brought forth wind, - Salvation, we could not accomplish for the earth, Neither were horn the inhabitants of the world.

For, to the wind, they sow, and, to the whirlwind, they reap: stalk, hath it none, That which shooteth forth, shall yield no meal, If so be it yield, foreigners, swallow it lip,

Be working, not for the food that perisheth, but for the food that endureth unto life age-abiding, - which, the Son of Man, unto you, will give; for upon, the same, hath the Father, even God, set his seal.

General references

What profit hath he that worketh, in that wherein, himself, hath toiled?