Ecclesiastes 5:15 {14}
Good News Translation
We leave this world just as we entered it--with nothing. In spite of all our work there is nothing we can take with us.

New Revised Standard Version
As they came from their mother’s womb, so they shall go again, naked as they came; they shall take nothing for their toil, which they may carry away with their hands.

Contemporary English Version
They came into this world naked, and when they die, they will be just as naked. They can't take anything with them, and they won't have anything to show for all their work.

New American Bible
As they came forth from their mother’s womb, so again shall they return, naked as they came, having nothing from their toil to bring with them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.

Job 1:21 And said: Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord.

Psalm 49:17 For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.

Luke 12:20 But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

1 Timothy 6:7 For we brought nothing into this world: and certainly we can carry nothing out.

Context
The Futility of Wealth
14For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want. 15As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.16A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall he return. What then doth it profit him that he hath laboured for the wind?…
Cross References
1 Timothy 6:7
For we brought nothing into this world: and certainly we can carry nothing out.

Job 1:21
And said: Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord.

Psalm 49:17
For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.

Ecclesiastes 5:14
For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want.

Ecclesiastes 5:14
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