Ecclesiastes 2:21

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

When there is a person whose work was done with wisdom, knowledge, and skill,  and he must give his portion to a person who has not worked for it, this too is futile and a great wrong.

Cross References

Jeremiah 22:17

But you have eyes and a heart for nothing except your own dishonest profit, shedding innocent blood and committing extortion and oppression.

Jeremiah 22:15

Are you a king because you excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink and administer justice and righteousness? Then it went well with him.

Ecclesiastes 9:18

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner can destroy much good.

2 Chronicles 35:18

No Passover had been observed  like it in Israel since the days of the prophet Samuel. None of the kings of Israel ever observed a Passover like the one that Josiah observed with the priests, the Levites, all Judah, the Israelites who were present in Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:2

He did what was right in the Lord’s sight and walked in the ways of his ancestor David;  he did not turn aside to the right or the left.

Ecclesiastes 2:20

So I began to give myself over  to despair concerning all my work that I had laboured at under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

I saw that all labour and all skilful work is due to one person’s jealousy of another.  This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.  ,

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is a person without a companion,  without even a son or brother, and though there is no end to all his struggles, his eyes are still not content with riches.  ‘Who am I struggling for,’ he asks, ‘and depriving myself of good things? ’ This too is futile and a miserable task.