Ecclesiastes 2:26

New American Bible - revised edition

For to the one who pleases God, he gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the one who displeases, God gives the task of gathering possessions for the one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chase after wind.

Cross References

Genesis 7:1

Then the Lord said to Noah: Go into the ark, you and all your household, for you alone in this generation have I found to be righteous before me.

Job 32:8

But there is a spirit in human beings, the breath of the Almighty, that gives them understanding.

Job 38:36

Who gives wisdom to the ibis, and gives the rooster understanding?

Psalm 39:6

To be sure, you establish the expanse of my days; indeed, my life is as nothing before you. Every man is but a breath. Selah

Psalm 51:6

Against you, you alone have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your eyes So that you are just in your word, and without reproach in your judgment.

Proverbs 13:22

The good leave an inheritance to their children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the just.

Proverbs 2:6

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

Proverbs 28:8

Whoever amasses wealth by interest and overcharge gathers it for the one who is kind to the poor.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

and I applied my mind to search and investigate in wisdom all things that are done under the sun. A bad business God has given to human beings to be busied with.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a chase after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:25

For who can eat or drink apart from God?

Ecclesiastes 3:10

I have seen the business that God has given to mortals to be busied about.

Luke 1:6

Both were righteous in the eyes of God, observing all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.

John 16:24

Until now you have not asked anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without inconstancy or insincerity.