Ecclesiastes 6:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

A man to whom God giveth wealth, and riches, and honour, and there is no lack to his soul of all that he desireth, and God giveth him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eateth it; this `is' vanity, and it `is' an evil disease.

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  • Eccl 5:19 : 19 Every 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.
  • Ps 17:14 : 14 From men, Thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, their portion `is' in life, And `with' Thy hidden things Thou fillest their belly, They are satisfied `with' sons; And have left their abundance to their sucklings.
  • Ps 73:7 : 7 Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;
  • 1 Kgs 3:13 : 13 and also, that which thou hast not asked I have given to thee, both riches and honour, that there hath not been like thee a man among the kings all thy days;
  • Job 21:9-9 : 9 Their houses `are' peace without fear, Nor `is' a rod of God upon them. 10 His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry. 11 They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip, 12 They lift `themselves' up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ. 13 They wear out in good their days, And in a moment `to' Sheol go down. 14 And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired. 15 What `is' the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'
  • Luke 12:19-20 : 19 and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry. 20 `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be?
  • Ps 39:6 : 6 Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, `in' vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.
  • 1 Chr 29:25 : 25 and Jehovah maketh Solomon exceedingly great before the eyes of all Israel, and putteth upon him the honour of the kingdom that hath not been on any king over Israel before him.
  • 1 Chr 29:28 : 28 and he dieth in a good old age, satisfied with days, riches, and honour, and reign doth Solomon his son in his stead.
  • 2 Chr 1:11 : 11 And God saith to Solomon, `Because that this hath been with thy heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, and honour, and the life of those hating thee, and also many days hast not asked, and dost ask for thyself wisdom and knowledge, so that thou dost judge My people over which I have caused thee to reign --
  • Deut 8:7-9 : 7 `For Jehovah thy God is bringing thee in unto a good land, a land of brooks of waters, of fountains, and of depths coming out in valley and in mountain: 8 a land of wheat, and barley, and vine, and fig, and pomegranate; a land of oil olive and honey; 9 a land in which without scarcity thou dost eat bread, thou dost not lack anything in it; a land whose stones `are' iron, and out of its mountains thou dost dig brass; 10 and thou hast eaten, and been satisfied, and hast blessed Jehovah thy God, on the good land which he hath given to thee.
  • Deut 28:33 : 33 The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labour, eat up doth a people whom thou hast not known; and thou hast been only oppressed and bruised all the days;
  • Deut 28:43 : 43 the sojourner who `is' in thy midst goeth up above thee very high, and thou goest down very low;
  • Judg 18:10 : 10 When ye go, ye come in unto a people confident, and the land `is' large on both hands, for God hath given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything which `is' in the land.'
  • Eccl 2:4-9 : 4 I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards. 5 I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit. 6 I made for me pools of water, to water from them a forest shooting forth trees. 7 I got men-servants, and maid-servants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance -- herd and flock -- above all who had been before me in Jerusalem. 8 I gathered for me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces. I prepared for me men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of man -- a wife and wives. 9 And I became great, and increased above every one who had been before me in Jerusalem; also, my wisdom stood with me. 10 And 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,
  • Eccl 4:4 : 4 And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.
  • Eccl 4:8 : 8 There 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.
  • Eccl 5:16 : 16 And this also `is' a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage `is' to him who laboureth for wind?
  • Lam 5:2 : 2 Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
  • Dan 5:18 : 18 thou, O king, God Most High, a kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honour, gave to Nebuchadnezzar thy father:
  • Hos 7:9 : 9 Devoured have strangers his power, And he hath not known, Also old age hath sprinkled `itself' on him, And he hath not known.

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  • Eccl 6:1
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    1There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it `is' great on man:

  • Eccl 5:10-14
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    10Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied `with' silver, nor he who is in love with stores `with' increase. Even this `is' vanity.

    11In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit `is' to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?

    12Sweet `is' the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.

    13There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.

    14And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!

  • Eccl 6:3-9
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    3If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, `Better than he `is' the untimely birth.'

    4For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,

    5Even the sun he hath not seen nor known, more rest hath this than that.

    6And though he had lived a thousand years twice over, yet good he hath not seen; to the same place doth not every one go?

    7All the labour of man `is' for his mouth, and yet the soul is not filled.

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

    9Better `is' the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 2:21-26
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    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?

    26For 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.

  • Eccl 5:16-19
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    16And this also `is' a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage `is' to him who laboureth for wind?

    17Also all his days in darkness he consumeth, and sadness, and wrath, and sickness abound.

    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.

  • Ps 39:6
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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.

  • Eccl 4:8
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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.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage `is' to man?

    12For who knoweth what `is' good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 8:14
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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.

  • Prov 13:7
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    7There is who is making himself rich, and hath nothing, Who is making himself poor, and wealth `is' abundant.

  • Eccl 2:19
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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.

  • Eccl 8:9-10
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    9All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil.

    10And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also `is' vanity.

  • Eccl 2:11
    72%

    11and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

  • Job 20:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.

    22In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.

  • Prov 5:10
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    10Lest strangers be filled `with' thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,

  • Prov 28:22
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    22Troubled for wealth `is' the man `with' an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.

  • Job 27:19
    72%

    19Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not.

  • Eccl 1:3
    72%

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

  • Eccl 4:4
    72%

    4And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Prov 23:6
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    6Eat not the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his dainties,

  • Eccl 4:16
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    16there is no end to all the people, to all who were before them; also, the latter rejoice not in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • 1 Tim 6:17
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    17Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; --

  • Eccl 7:15
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    15The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging `himself' in his wrong.

  • Prov 13:23
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    23Abundance of food -- the tillage of the poor, And substance is consumed without judgment.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich -- only to want.

  • Eccl 3:19
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    19For an event `is to' the sons of man, and an event `is to' the beasts, even one event `is' to them; as the death of this, so `is' the death of that; and one spirit `is' to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole `is' vanity.

  • Eccl 3:22
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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?

  • Prov 13:11
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    11Wealth from vanity becometh little, And whoso is gathering by the hand becometh great.

  • Prov 21:26
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    26All the day desiring he hath desired, And the righteous giveth and withholdeth not.