Ecclesiastes 5:16
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
This too is a grievous evil: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?
In context
14 or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
15 As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
16 This too is a grievous evil: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?
17 Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.
18 Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot.
Ecclesiastes 5:16 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- This too is a grievous evil: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?
- KJV King James Version
- 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?
- WEB 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?
- ASV 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?
- YLT 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?
- DBY Darby 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?
- WBS Webster Bible
- 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?