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Ecclesiastes 5:16-17
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 5:16-17
New International Version
16 This too is a grievous evil:
As everyone comes, so they depart,
and what do they gain,
since they toil for the wind?(A)
17 All their days they eat in darkness,
with great frustration, affliction and anger.
Ecclesiastes 5:16-17
King James Version
Ecclesiastes 5:16-17
King James Version
16 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?
17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
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