Ecclesiastes 2:19

A Conservative Version

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

Cross References

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is indeed first pure, then peaceful, meek, easily entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-hypocritical.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works, for that is his portion. For who shall bring him [back] to see what shall be after him?

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect endowment is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation nor shadow of turning.

Luke 16:8

And his lord commended the unrighteous manager because he did shrewdly. Because the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of the light.

Ecclesiastes 9:13

I have also seen wisdom under the sun this way, and it seemed great to me:

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a root of all the evils, of which some aspiring have wandered from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

1 Kings 12:13

And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

Ecclesiastes 2:20

Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

1 Kings 11:43

And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do, and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.