Ecclesiastes 6:2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

² Better it is to see what thou mayst desire, than to desire that which thou canst not know. But this also is vanity, and presumption of spirit.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² A man to whom God has given riches, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he might desire, yet God does not give him the power or capacity to enjoy them [things which are gifts from God], but a stranger [in whom he has no interest succeeds him and] consumes and enjoys them. This is vanity (emptiness, falsity, and futility); it is a sore affliction! [Luke 12:20.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² a man to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but an alien eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Common English Bible

² God may give some people plenty of wealth, riches, and glory so that they lack nothing they desire. But God doesn’t enable them to enjoy it; instead, a stranger enjoys it. This is pointless and a sickening tragedy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² It is a man to whom God has given wealth, and resources, and honor; and out of all that he desires, nothing is lacking to his life; yet God does not grant him the ability to consume these things, but instead a man who is a stranger will devour them. This is emptiness and a great misfortune.

Ecclesiastes 6:2 Referencias Cruzadas

Ecclesiastes 5:19

Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?

Psalm 17:14

In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came into his ears.

Psalm 73:7

4 And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.

1 Kings 3:13

8 And the third day, after that I was delivered, she also was delivered, and we were together, and no other person with us in the house, only we two.

Lamentations 5:2

0 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

Psalm 39:6

3 O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.

Hosea 7:9

Let there be a trumpet in thy throat like an eagle upon the house of the Lord: because they have transgressed my covenant, and have violated my law.

Daniel 5:18

6 And this is the interpretation of the word. MANE: God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

5 I saw all men living, that walk under the sun with the second young man, who shall rise up in his place.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

1 And if two lie together, they shall warm one another: how shall one alone be warmed?

2 Chronicles 1:11

6 And there were horses brought him from Egypt, and from Coa by the king's merchants, who went, and bought at a price,

1 Chronicles 29:28

And he went with all the multitude to the high place of Gabaon, where was the tabernacle of the covenant of the Lord, which Moses the servant of God made, in the wilderness.

1 Chronicles 29:25

0 And of all his reign, and his valour, and of the times that passed under him, either in Israel, or in all the kingdoms of the countries.

Judges 18:10

5 And when they had turned a little aside, they went into the house of the young man the Levite, who was in the house of Michas: and they saluted him with words of peace.

Deuteronomy 28:43

8 Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom the Lord will send upon thee, in hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put an iron yoke upon thy neck, till he consume thee.

Deuteronomy 28:33

8 Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little: because the locusts shall consume all.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

0 For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God entertaineth his heart with delight,

Isaiah 55:2

0 And as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return no more thither, but soak the earth, and water it, and make it to spring, and give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

Ecclesiastes 5:18

He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil: