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Ecclesiastes 1:3
What does a man gain for all his efforts that he labors at under the sun?
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Proverbs 14:23
There is profit in all hard work, but endless talk leads only to poverty.
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Ecclesiastes 2:11
When I considered all that I had accomplished and what I had labored to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun.
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Ecclesiastes 5:16
This too is a sickening tragedy: exactly as he comes, so he will go. What does the one gain who struggles for the wind?
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Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
For what does a man get with all his work and all his efforts that he labors at under the sun?For all his days are filled with grief, and his occupation is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.
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Matthew 16:26
What will it benefit a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?