Ecclesiastes 5:16

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Ecclesiastes 5:16

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Berean Standard Bible

This too is a grievous affliction: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?

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KJV

King James Version

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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World English Bible

This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

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ASV

American Standard Version

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

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Ecclesiastes 5

¹⁴ or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.

¹⁵ As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.

¹⁶ This too is a grievous affliction: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?

¹⁷ Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.

¹⁸ Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot.

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