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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?
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You Can't Take It With You
Commentators agree that this verse powerfully illustrates the futility of materialism. To spend one's life laboring for riches is to 'labor for the wind' because, at death, we leave the world just as we entered it: naked and without any of our accumulated wealth. It is a 'grievous evil' because the profit is gone, like the wind.
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Ecclesiastes
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Reformed Baptist
And this also [is] a sore evil, [that] in all points as he came, so shall he go
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Presbyterian
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