16And this also is a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage is to him who laboureth for wind?


In Context

13 There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.

14 And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!

15 As he came out from the belly of his mother, naked he turneth back to go as he came, and he taketh not away anything of his labour, that doth go in his hand.

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?

17 Also all his days in darkness he consumeth, and sadness, and wrath, and sickness abound.

18 Lo, that which I have seen: It is good, because beautiful, to eat, and to drink, and to see good in all one's labour that he laboureth at under the sun, the number of the days of his life that God hath given to him, for it is his portion.

Ecclesiastes 5:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:16And 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?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:16This too is a grievous evil: As a man comes, so he departs, and what does he gain, since he toils for the wind?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:16A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall he return. What then doth it profit him that he hath laboured for the wind?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:16And 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?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:16And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came so doth he go away, and what profit hath he, in having laboured for the wind?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:16And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that he laboureth for the wind?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:16And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath labored for the wind?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:16This 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?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:16And 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?