Ecclesiastes 2:19

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

whom I know not, whether he shall be wise either a fool; and he shall be lord in my travails, for which I sweated greatly, and was busy; and is there anything so vain?

Cross References

1 Kings 11:43

And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David, his father; and Rehoboam, his son, reigned for him.

1 Kings 12:13

And the king answered hard things to the people, while the counsel of [the] elder men was forsaken, that they had given to him;

Ecclesiastes 2:11

And when I had turned me to all the works which mine hands had made, and to the travails in which I had sweated in vain, I saw in all things vanity and torment of soul, and that nothing under [the] sun dwelleth.

Ecclesiastes 2:20

Wherefore I ceased, and mine heart forsook for to travail further under [the] sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

And I perceived that nothing is better, than that a man be glad in his work, and that this be his part; for who shall bring him, that he know things that shall come after him?

Ecclesiastes 9:13

Also I saw this wisdom under the sun, and I proved it the most.

Luke 16:8

And the lord praised the bailiff [or the farmer] of wickedness, for he had done prudently; for the sons of this world be more prudent in their generation, than the sons of light.

1 Timothy 6:10

For the root of all evils is covetousness, which some men coveting erred from the faith, and besetted them with many sorrows.

James 1:17

Each good gift, and each perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is none other changing, nor over-shadowing of reward.

James 3:17

But wisdom that is from above, first it is chaste, afterward peaceable, mild, able to be counselled [or persuadable], consenting to good things, full of mercy and of good fruits, deeming without feigning.