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 another sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;
Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what does man have of all his labour and of the vexation of his heart in which he has laboured under the sun?
What
1 Samuel 12:21
do not turn aside after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
Jeremiah 2:8
The priests did not say, Where is the LORD? and those that handled the law did not know me; the pastors also rebelled against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and walked after things that do not profit.
Mark 8:36
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
For
Ecclesiastes 1:3
What profit does a man have of all his labour which he takes under the sun?
Proverbs 11:29
He that troubles his own house shall inherit the wind, and the fool shall be slave to the wise of heart.
Isaiah 26:18
We have conceived, we have had birth pangs; we have, as it were, brought forth wind; we have not wrought any health in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
Hosea 8:7
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind; they shall have no harvest; the fruit shall yield no meal: if so be it yields, the strangers shall swallow it up.
John 6:27
Labour not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you, for him has God the Father sealed.
General references
Ecclesiastes 3:9
What profit does the one that works have in that in which he labours?