Ecclesiastes 2:26

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth 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.

In his sight

Genesis 7:1

Luke 1:6

Wisdom

To the sinner

Job 27:16

Proverbs 13:22

Proverbs 28:8

General references

1 Timothy 6:8

Bible References

In his sight

And Jehovah will say to Noah, Come thou, and all thy house into the ark, for thee I saw just to my face in this generation.

And they were both just before God, going faultless in all the commands and precepts of the Lord.

Wisdom

And according to this Hezekiah will do in all Judah, and he will do the good and the straight and the truth before Jehovah his God.

Happy the man finding wisdom; and the man shall bring forth understanding.

Say to the just, that it is good that they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

Until now ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy might be completed.

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but justice, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

And ye are of him in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and also justice, and consecration, and holiness:

And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

For this also we, from the day which we heard, ceased not praying for you, and asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Let the word of Christ dwell in, you richly; teaching and reminding one another in all wisdom, playing with harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, with grace singing in your hearts to the Lord.

And the wisdom from above is truly first pure, then peaceful, decorous, docile, full of mercy and good fruits, not separated, and unfeigned.

To the sinner

If he shall heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as clay;

The good shall cause his sons' sons to inherit: and the wealth of him sinning was treasured up for the just.

He increasing by interest and usury, he shall gather it for him compassionating the poor.

General references

A little to the just one is good more than the wealth of many unjust.

Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; vanity of vanities, all vanity.

I saw the labor which God gave to the sons of man to be humbled in it

Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal:

And having sustenance and covering, with these let us be contented.