Ecclesiastes 2:18

Is There Real Happiness In Life?

¹⁷ So I hated life because the work done under the sun [is] grievous to me. For everything [is] vanity and chasing wind! ¹⁸ So I hated all my toil with which I have toiled under the sun, for I must leave it behind to someone who will be after me. ¹⁹ And who knows [whether] he will be wise or foolish? Yet he will exercise control of all [the fruit of] my toil with which I toiled wisely under the sun. This also [is] vanity!

Come After Me

On Earth

Toiled Under the Sun

Under the Sun

Taken Under The Sun

Psalm 39:6

Surely a man walks about as a [mere] {shadow}; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up [possessions] but does not know who [will] gather them [in].

Psalm 49:10

For he sees [that] the wise die, together [with the] fool and brute they perish, and leave their wealth to the next [generation].

1 Kings 11:11-13

So Yahweh said to Solomon, "Because this was with you, and you did not keep my covenant and my ordinances which I have commanded you, I will certainly tear the kingdom from you, and I will give it to your servant.

Psalm 17:14

from men by your hand, O Yahweh, from men of [this] world. Their share [is] in {this life}, and you fill their stomach [with] your treasure. They are satisfied [with] children. They bequeath their excess to their children.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What does a person gain in all his toil with which he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I applied my mind to seek and to search by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. It [is] a grievous task God has given to {humans}.

Ecclesiastes 2:4-9

{I accomplished great things}. I built for myself houses; I planted for myself vineyards.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the person who [is] good in his eyes, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and heaping up only to give [it] to [him who is] pleasing to him. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!

Ecclesiastes 4:3

But better [off] than both of them is the one who has not yet been born and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:13-14

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth {hoarded} by its owner to his harm.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Look! I have discovered what is good and fitting: to eat and to drink and {to enjoy} all [the fruit of] the toil with which one toils under the sun during the number of the days of his life that God gives to him--for this [is] his lot.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which he gives you under the sun, because this [is] your lot in life and in the toil with which you toil under the sun.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your life is demanded from you, and [the things] which you have prepared--whose will they be?'

Luke 16:27-28

So he said, 'Then I ask you, father, that you send him to my father's house,

Acts 20:29-30

I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

1 Corinthians 3:10

According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building upon [it]. But each one must direct his attention to how he is building upon [it].