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?
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Bible References
A sore
Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth {hoarded} by its owner to his harm.
Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what does a person receive for all his toil and in the longing of his heart with which he toils under the sun?
What
1 Samuel 12:21
And do not turn aside after the triviality, which have no value and cannot deliver, for they are triviality.
Jeremiah 2:8
The priests did not say, 'Where [is] Yahweh?' and those who handle the law did not know me, and the shepherds have {rebelled against me}, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and they went after [things which] do not profit.
Mark 8:36
For what does it benefit a person to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
For
Ecclesiastes 1:3
What does a person gain in all his toil with which he toils under the sun?
Proverbs 11:29
He who brings trouble [to] his household, he will inherit wind, and a fool will serve the wise of heart.
Isaiah 26:18
We became pregnant, we writhed; we gave birth [to] wind. We cannot bring about deliverance [on the] earth, and no inhabitants of [the] world are born.
Hosea 8:7
Because they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind. [The] standing grain does not have heads; it will not yield flour. [And] if it would yield, strangers would devour it.
John 6:27
Do not work for the food that perishes, but the food that remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has set his seal on this one."
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Ecclesiastes 3:9
What does the worker gain in his toil?