Ecclesiastes 2:21
For you can work wisely, knowledgably, and with skill—and who benefits? Someone who hasn't worked for it! This is both frustrating and totally unjust!
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20I decided to give up, my mind in despair over the significance of all my life's achievements.
22What do you get here on earth for all your hard work and worry?
Cross References
2 Chronicles 31:20This is what Hezekiah did throughout the whole of Judah. He did what was good, right, and true before the Lord his God.
2 Chronicles 34:2He did what was right in the Lord's sight and followed the ways of his forefather David—he did not deviate to the right or to the left.
2 Chronicles 36:5Jehoiakim was twenty-five when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eleven years. He did evil in the sight of the Lord his God.
Psalms 49:11They think their homes will last forever, that where they live will continue for all generations.
Ecclesiastes 9:18It's better to have wisdom than weapons of war; but a sinner can destroy a lot of good.
Jeremiah 22:17But all you're looking for, all you think about, is getting whatever you want, however dishonestly. You kill the innocent, you violently mistreat and exploit your people.
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 →