Verse 16

And this also `is' a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage `is' to him who laboureth for wind?

Referenced Verses

• Prov 11:29 : 29 Whoso is troubling his own house inheriteth wind, And a servant `is' the fool to the wise of heart.
• Eccl 1:3 : 3 What advantage `is' to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?
• Eccl 2:22-23 : 22 For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun? 23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also `is' vanity.
• Eccl 5:13 : 13 There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.
• Isa 26:18 : 18 We have conceived, we have been pained. We have brought forth as it were wind, Salvation we do not work in the earth, Nor do the inhabitants of the world fall.
• Jer 2:8 : 8 The priests have not said, `Where `is' Jehovah?' And those handling the law have not known Me. And the shepherds transgressed against Me, And the prophets have prophesied by Baal, And after those who profit not have gone.
• Hos 8:7 : 7 For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none -- a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield -- strangers do swallow it up.
• Mark 8:36 : 36 for what shall it profit a man, if he may gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
• John 6:27 : 27 work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal -- `even' God.'
• 1 Sam 12:21 : 21 and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they `are' vain,