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Eclesiastés 1:3
What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? (niv)
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Proverbios 14:23
All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty. (niv)
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Eclesiastés 2:11
Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun. (niv)
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Eclesiastés 5:16
This too is a grievous evil: As everyone comes, so they depart, and what do they gain, since they toil for the wind? (niv)
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Eclesiastés 2:22-23
What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless. (niv)
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Mateo 16:26
What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? (niv)