Ecclesiastes 6:2

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

A man which God will give to him wealth and riches and honor, and wanting not to his soul from all which he shall desire, and God will not permit him to eat from it, for a man, a stranger shall eat it. This is vanity and it is an evil disease.

Cross References

1 Kings 3:13

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.

1 Chronicles 29:25

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.

1 Chronicles 29:28

And he will die in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor: and Solomon his son will reign in his stead.

2 Chronicles 1:11

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:

Psalm 17:14

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.

Psalm 39:6

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.

Psalm 73:7

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

Ecclesiastes 4:4

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.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one, and not a second; also a son and brother not to him: and no end to all his labor; also his eye shall not be satisfied with riches: and for whom do I labor and diminish my soul from good? Also this is vanity, and it is an evil labor.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is an evil making sick I saw under the sun: riches watched to its owners for their evil.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

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?

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Behold, what I saw: good, which is beautiful to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor that he will labor under the sun the number of the days of his life, which God gave to him; for this his portion.

Ecclesiastes 5:19

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.

Isaiah 55:2

Wherefore will ye weigh silver without bread? and your labour not for fulness? hearing, hear ye to me, and eat good, and your soul shall delight in fatness.

Lamentations 5:2

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

Daniel 5:18

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

Hosea 7:9

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

Deuteronomy 28:33

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.

Deuteronomy 28:43

The stranger which is in the midst of thee shall go up above thee, going up, going up; and thou shalt go down beneath, beneath.

Judges 18:10

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.