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 saith to Noah, 'Come in, thou and all thy house, unto the ark, for thee I have seen righteous before Me in this generation;

and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,

Wisdom

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;

O the happiness of a man who hath found wisdom, And of a man who bringeth forth understanding.

Say ye to the righteous, that it is good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat.

till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;

and of Him ye -- ye are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption,

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

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,

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;

and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

To the sinner

If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,

A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous is the sinner's wealth.

Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.

General references

Better is the little of the righteous, Than the store of many wicked.

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole is vanity.

I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

'Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,

but having food and raiment -- with these we shall suffice ourselves;