Ecclesiastes 5:16
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Advantage Born Departs Die Evil Gain Great Grievous Labors Laboureth Painful Points Profit Sore Toiled Toils Wind Working
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English Standard Version
This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind?

New American Standard Bible
This also is a grievous evil-- exactly as a man is born, thus will he die. So what is the advantage to him who toils for the wind?

King James Bible
And 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?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This too is a sickening tragedy: exactly as he comes, so he will go. What does the one gain who struggles for the wind?

International Standard Version
This is also a painful tragedy: However a person comes, he also departs; so what does he gain as he labors after the wind?

NET Bible
This is another misfortune: Just as he came, so will he go. What did he gain from toiling for the wind?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
This also is a painful tragedy: They leave exactly as they came. What advantage do they gain from working so hard for the wind?

King James 2000 Bible
And this also is a great evil, that just as he came, so shall he go: and what profit has he who has labored for the wind?

American King James Version
And 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?

American Standard Version
And 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?

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

Darby Bible Translation
And 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?

English Revised Version
And 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?

Webster's Bible Translation
And 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?

World English Bible
This 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?

Young's Literal Translation
And this also is a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage is to him who laboureth for wind?
Lexicon
And this
zoh  (zo)
this or that -- as well as another, it, this, that, thus and thus.
also is a sore
chalah  (khaw-law')
to be rubbed or worn; hence (figuratively) to be weak, sick, afflicted; or (causatively) to grieve, make sick; also to stroke (in flattering), entreat
evil
ra`  (rah)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
that in all points
`ummah  (oom-maw')
conjunction, i.e. society; mostly adverb or preposition (with prepositional prefix), near, beside, along with -- (over) against, at, beside, hard by, in points.
as he came
bow'  (bo)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
so shall he go
yalak  (yaw-lak')
to walk; causatively, to carry (in various senses)
and what profit
yithrown  (yith-rone')
preeminence, gain -- better, excellency(-leth), profit(-able).
hath he that hath laboured
`amal  (aw-mal')
to toil, i.e. work severely and with irksomeness -- (take) labour (in).
for the wind
ruwach  (roo'-akh)
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being
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