Ecclesiastes 6:2

Tree of Life Version

God gives a man riches, wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing that his heart desires, yet God does not enable him to eat from it—instead a foreigner will eat it. This is fruitless—an agonizing illness.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 5:19

For he will not often consider the days of his life, since God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.

Psalm 17:14

from men, with Your hand, Adonai, from men of the world whose portion is in this life. You fill their belly with Your treasure —with plenty of children— and leave their surplus to their babes.

Psalm 73:7

Their eyes bulge out from fatness. The imaginations of their hearts run wild.

1 Kings 3:13

Moreover I have also given you what you did not request—both riches and honor—so that no one among the kings will be like you all your days.

Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.

Psalm 39:6

Behold, You made my days mere hand-breadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Surely all humanity is but vapor. Selah

Hosea 7:9

Strangers devoured his strength— yet he does not know it. Gray hairs have spread on him— and he does not know it.

Daniel 5:18

Your majesty, God Most High gave your father Nebuchadnezzar the kingdom, as well as greatness, glory, and splendor.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

So, all his days he eats in darkness, and he has much grief, sickness, and humiliation.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one who has no one else, neither son nor brother, yet there is no end to all his toil. His eyes are not content with riches. “So, for whom am I toiling, and depriving myself of prosperity?” This too is meaningless— a grievous task!

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Then I saw that all toil and all skill that is done come from man’s envy of his neighbor; this too is fleeting and striving after the wind.

2 Chronicles 1:11

Then God said to Solomon, “Since this was in your heart and you have not asked for riches, possessions or honor, nor for the life of those who hate you and have not even asked for long life but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself—so you can govern My people over whom I have made you king—

1 Chronicles 29:28

He died at a good old age, full of days, riches and honor, and his son Solomon became king in his place.

1 Chronicles 29:25

Adonai highly exalted Solomon in the sight of all Israel and bestowed on him such royal majesty as had never been on any king before him in Israel.

Judges 18:10

When you get there, you will come to unsuspecting people. The land is spacious. For God has put it in your hand—a place where there is no lack of anything on the earth.”

Deuteronomy 28:43

“The outsider who is in your midst will rise up higher and higher above you, and you will go down lower and lower.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A people you do not know will eat up the produce of your soil and all your labor, and you will be only oppressed and crushed all the time.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

or wealth lost in a bad investment, and when he fathers a son, there is nothing in his hand.

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you spend money for what is not bread? Your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen diligently to Me, and eat what is good, and delight yourself in abundance.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Additionally, everyone to whom God has given riches and wealth, and empowers him to eat from it, to receive his share, and to rejoice in his labor—this is a gift of God.