This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind?
What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?
Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.
Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it.
The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’ Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and went after things that do not profit.
we were pregnant, we writhed, but we have given birth to wind. We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth, and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt,
What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.
And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.
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