Ecclesiastes 2:26
For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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In Context
25For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
Cross References
Genesis 7:1And the LORD said unto Noah, Come you and all your house into the ark; for you 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 there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding.
Proverbs 3:13Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding.
Proverbs 28:8He that by interest and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Isaiah 3:10Say all of you to 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 →