Bible Cross References
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Ecclesiastes 1:17
I was determined to learn the difference between knowledge and foolishness, wisdom and madness. But I found out that I might as well be chasing the wind.
Ecclesiastes 1:18
The wiser you are, the more worries you have; the more you know, the more it hurts.
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I thought about all that I had done and how hard I had worked doing it, and I realized that it didn't mean a thing. It was like chasing the wind---of no use at all.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So life came to mean nothing to me, because everything in it had brought me nothing but trouble. It had all been useless; I had been chasing the wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
God gives wisdom, knowledge, and happiness to those who please him, but he makes sinners work, earning and saving, so that what they get can be given to those who please him. It is all useless. It is like chasing the wind.
1 Kings 4:30-32
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Solomon was wiser than the wise men of the East or the wise men of Egypt.
31
He was the wisest of all men: wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame spread throughout all the neighboring countries.
32
He composed three thousand proverbs and more than a thousand songs.
Psalm 39:5
How short you have made my life! In your sight my lifetime seems nothing. Indeed every living being is no more than a puff of wind,
Psalm 39:6
no more than a shadow. All we do is for nothing; we gather wealth, but don't know who will get it.