Ecclesiastes 5:16
"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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- Proverbs 11:29
"He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 1:3
"What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?"
Read in chapter → - Mark 8:36
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
Read in chapter → - John 6:27
"Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 5:13
"There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt."
Read in chapter → - 1 Samuel 12:21
"And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain."
Read in chapter → - Hosea 8:7
"For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 2:8
"The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 26:18
"We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 2:22
"For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?"
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