Ecclesiastes 5:16
This too is a grievous evil: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?
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1 Corinthians 16:16
to submit to such as these, and to every fellow worker and laborer.

Proverbs 11:29
He who brings trouble on his house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

Ecclesiastes 1:3
What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11
Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:9
What does the worker gain from his toil?


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And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit has he that has labored for the wind?

a sore



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.



Ecclesiastes 2:22,23
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? …

what



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.



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.



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 hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?



Proverbs 11:29
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.



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.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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