Ecclesiastes 2:26

Modern English Version

To the person who is pleasing before Him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the one who sins, He gives the task to gather and collect, to give to the other person who is pleasing before God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Cross References

Genesis 7:1

The Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your entire household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before Me in this generation.

Job 32:8

But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding.

Job 38:36

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts, or who has given understanding to the heart?

Psalm 39:6

Surely every man walks around like a shadow; surely they make an uproar in vain; he heaps up riches, and does not know who will gather them.

Psalm 51:6

Behold, You desire truth in the inward being, and in my secret heart You will teach me wisdom.

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaves an inheritance to his sons’ children, but the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

Proverbs 2:6

For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding;

Proverbs 28:8

He who increases his wealth by usury and extortion gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I set my heart to seek and to investigate with wisdom everything that is done under heaven. It is a burdensome task that God has given to humanity to be occupied with.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen everything that is done under the sun; and behold, everything is vanity and like chasing the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:25

For who can even eat or have enjoyment more than I?

Ecclesiastes 3:10

I have seen the task that God has given to people to be concerned with.

Luke 1:6

They were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.

John 16:24

Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.