Ecclesiastes 2:21
For there is such a man that his labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in fortitude; yet this man shall give his portion to one who has not laboured therein. This is also vanity and great evil.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
20So I went about to dismiss from my heart all my labour wherein I had laboured under the sun.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 31:20And Ezekias did so through all Juda, and did that which was good and right before the Lord his God.
2 Chronicles 34:2And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of his father David, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
2 Chronicles 36:5d and for the innocent blood which Joakim shed, for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; yet the Lord would not utterly destroy them.
Psalms 49:11I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine.
Ecclesiastes 9:18Wisdom is better than weapons of war: and one sinner will destroy much good.
Jeremiah 22:17Behold, thine eyes are not good, nor thine heart, but they go after thy covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.
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 →