Ecclesiastes 2:26

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For to a man who `is' good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

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  • Prov 13:22 : 22 A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous `is' the sinner's wealth.
  • Job 27:16-17 : 16 If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing, 17 He prepareth -- and the righteous putteth `it' on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion.
  • John 16:24 : 24 till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
  • Prov 3:13-18 : 13 O the happiness of a man `who' hath found wisdom, And of a man `who' bringeth forth understanding. 14 For better `is' her merchandise Than the merchandise of silver, And than gold -- her increase. 15 Precious she `is' above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her. 16 Length of days `is' in her right hand, In her left `are' wealth and honour. 17 Her ways `are' ways of pleasantness, And all her paths `are' peace. 18 A tree of life she `is' to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her `is' happy.
  • Prov 28:8 : 8 Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.
  • Eccl 1:14 : 14 I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit!
  • Isa 3:10-11 : 10 Say ye to the righteous, that `it is' good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat. 11 Wo to the wicked -- evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,
  • Job 32:8 : 8 Surely a spirit is in man, And the breath of the Mighty One Doth cause them to understand.
  • Gen 7:1 : 1 And Jehovah saith to Noah, `Come in, thou and all thy house, unto the ark, for thee I have seen righteous before Me in this generation;
  • 2 Chr 31:20-21 : 20 And Hezekiah doth thus in all Judah, and doth that which is good, and that which is right, and that which is true, before Jehovah his God; 21 and in every work that he hath begun for the service of the house of God, and for the law, and for the command, to seek to his God, with all his heart he hath wrought and prospered.
  • Rom 14:17-18 : 17 for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit; 18 for he who in these things is serving the Christ, `is' acceptable to God and approved of men.
  • 1 Cor 1:30-31 : 30 and of Him ye -- ye are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption, 31 that, according as it hath been written, `He who is glorying -- in the Lord let him glory.'
  • Gal 5:22-23 : 22 And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;
  • Col 1:9-9 : 9 Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, 10 to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God, 11 in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy. 12 Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,
  • Col 3:16-17 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord; 17 and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, `do' all things in the name of the Lord Jesus -- giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.
  • Jas 3:17 : 17 and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

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    19And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also `is' vanity.

    20And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.

    21For there is a man whose labour `is' in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this `is' vanity and a great evil.

    22For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

    23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also `is' vanity.

    24There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it `is' from the hand of God.

    25For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?

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    14There is a vanity that hath been done upon the earth, that there are righteous ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this also `is' vanity.

    15And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remaineth with him of his labour the days of his life that God hath given to him under the sun.

  • Eccl 3:12-13
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    12I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,

    13yea, even every man who eateth and hath drunk and seen good by all his labour, it `is' a gift of God.

  • Eccl 2:10-11
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    10And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,

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    13And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It `is' a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

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    22And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it `is' his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?

  • Eccl 5:18-20
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    18Lo, that which I have seen: `It is' good, because beautiful, to eat, and to drink, and to see good in all one's labour that he laboureth at under the sun, the number of the days of his life that God hath given to him, for it `is' his portion.

    19Every man also to whom God hath given wealth and riches, and hath given him power to eat of it, and to accept his portion, and to rejoice in his labour, this is a gift of God.

    20For he doth not much remember the days of his life, for God is answering through the joy of his heart.

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    17And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this `is' vexation of spirit;

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    1There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it `is' great on man:

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    13See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?

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    8For what advantage `is' to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?

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    17then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.

  • Eccl 3:9-10
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    9What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?

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  • Eccl 9:1
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    1But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, `are' in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole `is' before them.

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    3What advantage `is' to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

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    8There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and `he saith not', `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

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    11For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage `is' to man?

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    6Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, `in' vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

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    20Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?

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    8Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole `is' vanity.

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