Ecclesiastes 6:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

A man

Daniel 5:18

So

But

Vanity

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Ecclesiastes 5:16

General references

Ecclesiastes 3:13

Zechariah 9:6

Bible References

A man

Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.

And with this I have given you what you made no request for: wealth and honour, so that no king was ever your equal.

And the Lord made Solomon great in the eyes of all Israel, clothing him with glory and honour such as no other king in Israel had had before him.

And God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you did not make request for money, property, or honour, or for the destruction of your haters, or for long life; but you have made request for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, so that you may be the judge of my people over whom I have made you king:

As for you, O King, the Most High God gave to Nebuchadnezzar, your father, the kingdom and great power and glory and honour:

So

I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.

For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;

When you come there you will come to a people living without thought of danger; and the land is wide, and God has given it into your hands: a place where there is everything on earth for man's needs.

Their houses are free from fear, and the rod of God does not come on them.

Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.

But

The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:

Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.

Men from other lands have made waste his strength, and he is not conscious of it; grey hairs have come on him here and there, and he has no knowledge of it.

Vanity

And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

General references

And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God.

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