Ecclesiastes 5:16

²⁹He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

³What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

³⁶For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

¹³There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

²⁷Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

²²For what does a man have of all his labor and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun? ²³For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

⁸The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is the LORD?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.

⁷For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

¹⁸We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

²¹Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.