Ecclesiastes 2:26

New King James Version

For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

Cross References

Genesis 7:1

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you 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 mind? Or who has given understanding to the heart?

Psalm 39:6

Surely every man walks about like a shadow; Surely they busy themselves in vain; He heaps up riches, And does not know who will gather them.

Psalm 51:6

Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, But the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.

Proverbs 2:6

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

Proverbs 28:8

One who increases his possessions by usury and extortion Gathers it for him who will pity the poor.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven; this burdensome task God has given to the sons of man, by which they may be exercised.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:25

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

Ecclesiastes 3:10

I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied.

Luke 1:6

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

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, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.