Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to a man who is good in his sight God giveth wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he giveth the wearisome business of gathering and heaping up, to give it to him who is good before God. This also is vanity, and striving after wind.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
25For who can eat, or hasten thereunto more than I?
Cross References
Job 27:16Though he heap up silver as dust, And procure raiment as clay,—
Job 32:8But it is the spirit in man, Even the inspiration of the Almighty, that giveth him understanding.
Proverbs 3:13Happy the man who findeth wisdom; Yea, the man who getteth understanding!
Proverbs 28:8He that increaseth his substance by usurious gain Gathereth it for him who will pity the poor.
Isaiah 3:10Say ye of the righteous that it shall be well with him, For he shall eat the fruit of his 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 →