Ecclesiastes 2:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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 vanity.

Who knoweth

2 Chronicles 12:9

Wise under

General references

Proverbs 17:25

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Zechariah 9:6

Bible References

Who knoweth

So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?

But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.

Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem;

And the king gave them a rough answer. So King Rehoboam gave no attention to the suggestion of the old men,

So Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem and took away all the stored wealth of the house of the Lord and the king's house: he took everything away, and with the rest the gold body-covers which Solomon had made.

Wise under

This again I have seen under the sun as wisdom and it seemed great to me.

And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.

Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.

But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.

General references

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.

And a mixed people will be living in Ashdod, and I will have the pride of the Philistines cut off.