7 Bible Verses about Toiling In Vain

I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.

What profit hath man of all his labour wherewith he laboureth under the sun?

For what will man have of all his labour and of the striving of his heart, wherewith he hath wearied himself under the sun?

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly laid bare, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; so that the peoples will have laboured in vain, and the nations for the fire: and they shall be weary.

They have sown wheat, and they reap thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and do not profit. Be ye therefore ashamed of your revenues, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

There is one alone and without a second; also he hath neither son nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, and he saith not, For whom then am I labouring, and depriving my soul of good? This also is vanity and a grievous occupation.

Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?