Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the man that is good in His sight He giveth wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner He giveth the task, to gather and to heap up, that he may leave to him that is good in the sight of God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
25For who will eat, or who will enjoy, if not I?
Cross References
Genesis 7:1And the LORD said unto Noah: 'Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before Me in this generation.
Job 27:16Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
Job 32:8But it is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty, that giveth them understanding.
Proverbs 3:13Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that obtaineth understanding.
Proverbs 28:8He that augmenteth his substance by interest and increase, gathereth it for him that is gracious to the poor.
Isaiah 3:10Say ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
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 →