Strong's Hebrew English Morphology 1571 [e] וְגַם־ wə-ḡam- And also Conj-w | Conj 2090 [e] זֹה֙ zōh this Pro-fs 7451 [e] רָעָ֣ה rā-‘āh evil Adj-fs 2470 [e] חוֹלָ֔ה ḥō-w-lāh, [is] a severe V-Qal-Prtcpl-fs 3605 [e] כָּל־ kāl- just N-msc 5980 [e] עֻמַּ֥ת ‘um-maṯ exactly Prep 935 [e] שֶׁבָּ֖א šeb-bā as he came Pro-r | V-Qal-Perf-3ms 3651 [e] כֵּ֣ן kên so Adv 1980 [e] יֵלֵ֑ךְ yê-lêḵ; shall he go V-Qal-Imperf-3ms 4100 [e] וּמַה־ ū-mah- And what Conj-w | Interrog 3504 [e] יִּתְר֣וֹן yiṯ-rō-wn profit N-ms   ל֔וֹ lōw, has he Prep | 3ms 5998 [e] שֶֽׁיַּעֲמֹ֖ל še-ya-‘ă-mōl who has labored Pro-r | V-Qal-Imperf-3ms 7307 [e] לָרֽוּחַ׃ lā-rū-aḥ. for the wind Prep-l, Art | N-cs

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?

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Ecclesiastes 5:13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches …

Ecclesiastes 2:22,23 For what has man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, …

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1 Samuel 12:21 And turn you not aside: for then should you go after vain things, …

Jeremiah 2:8 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the …

Mark 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, …

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Ecclesiastes 1:3 What profit has a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun?

Proverbs 11:29 He that troubles his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool …

Isaiah 26:18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were …

Hosea 8:7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it …

John 6:27 Labor not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures …

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