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

Luke 12:19

But

Vanity

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Ecclesiastes 5:16

General references

Ecclesiastes 3:13

Zechariah 9:6

Bible References

A man

Also every man which God gave to him wealth and riches, and permitted him to eat from it, and to lift up his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this the gift of God himself.

And also that thou askedst not I gave to thee, also riches, also honor, that there was not a man like thee among kings all thy days.

And Jehovah will magnify Solomon to above before the eyes of all Israel, and he will give upon him the majesty of the kingdom which was not upon any king before him over Israel.

And God will say to Solomon, Because this was with thy heart, and thou askedst not riches, treasures and honor, and the soul of those hating thee, and also many days thou askedst not, and thou wilt ask for thee wisdom and knowledge that thou shalt judge my people that I caused thee to reign over them:

Thou, O king, God most high gave a kingdom and greatness and honor and splendor to Nebuchadnezzar thy father:

So

I magnified my work; I builded to me houses; I planted to me vineyards:

For Jehovah thy God brings thee to a good land, a land of torrents of water, fountains, and depths going forth in the valley and in the mountain;

In your going, ye shall come to a people confiding, and to a land of many hands: for God gave it into your hand, a place where no want there of any word which is in the earth.

Their houses peace from fear, and the rod of God not upon them.

From men of thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this world their portion in life, and thou wilt fill their belly with thy hidden things: they will be filled with sons, they left the remaining things to their children.

Their eye will come forth from fat: they passed over the imaginations of the heart

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years; rest, eat, drink, be gladdened.

But

The fruit of thy land and all thy labors, a people which thou knewest not shall eat: and thou wert only oppressed and broken all the days.

Surely in a shadow a man will go about: surely they will be disquieted in vain: he will store up, and he knew not who shall gather them.

Our inheritance was turned to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

Strangers consumed his strength, and he knew not: also grayness of hair was sprinkled upon him, and he knew not

Vanity

And I saw all the labor and all the success of the work, for this the jealousy of a man from his neighbor. Also this is vanity and striving of spirit.

And also this an evil making sick, wholly as he came so shall he go: and what to him he shall labor for the wind?

General references

And also every man shall eat and drink, and see the good in all his labor; it is the gift of God.

And a foreigner dwelt in Ashdod, and I cut off the pride of the rovers