Ecclesiastes 5:16

profit. advantage.

laboured. toiled.

wind Hebrew. ruach.

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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?

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Ecclesiastes 5:16