Ecclesiastes 2:26
To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
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25Who may take food or have pleasure without him?
Cross References
Genesis 7:1And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.
Job 27:16Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;
Job 32:8But truly it is the spirit in man, even the breath of the Ruler of all, which gives them knowledge.
Proverbs 3:13Happy is the man who makes discovery of wisdom, and he who gets knowledge.
Proverbs 28:8He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.
Isaiah 3:10Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 2:18-26
Sources of Dissatisfaction; The Cheerful Use of Abundance. 17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. 18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. 19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also… Read the whole commentary →