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Ecclesiastes 5:16

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?

Ecclesiastes 5:16 BSB

Ecclesiastes 5:16 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 11:29 (6 votes) and Ecclesiastes 1:3 (6 votes). 17 other verses point back to it. It links with 11 other books, from 1 Samuel 12 to 1 Timothy 6.

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Which verses does Ecclesiastes 5:16 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Proverbs 11:296 votes

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

  2. Ecclesiastes 1:36 votes

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

  3. Mark 8:364 votes

    What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

  4. Ecclesiastes 5:133 votes

    There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,

  5. John 6:273 votes

    Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”

  6. 1 Samuel 12:212 votes

    Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.

  7. Ecclesiastes 2:22–232 votes

    For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun? Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.

  8. Isaiah 26:182 votes

    We were with child; we writhed in pain; but we gave birth to wind. We have given no salvation to the earth, nor brought any life into the world.

  9. Jeremiah 2:82 votes

    The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.

  10. Hosea 8:72 votes

    For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 5:16?

The 10 strongest of 17.