Ecclesiastes 2:21

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

For why when another man travaileth in wisdom, and teaching, and busyness, he leaveth things gotten to an idle man; and therefore this is vanity, and great evil.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 34:2

And he did that, that was rightful [or right] in the sight of the Lord; and went in the ways of David, his father, and bowed not to the right side, neither to the left side.

2 Chronicles 35:18

No pask was like this in Israel, from the days of Samuel, the prophet; but neither any of the kings of Israel made pask as Josiah did, to [the] priests and deacons [or Levites], and to all Judah and Israel, that was found there, and to the dwellers of Jerusalem.

Psalm 39:7

And now which is mine abiding? whether not the Lord? and my substance is at thee.

Psalm 49:10

when he shall see wise men dying; the unwise man and the fool shall perish together. And they shall leave their riches to aliens;

Psalm 49:11

and the sepulchres of them be the houses of them without end. The tabernacles of them be in generation and in generation; they called their names in their lands.

Ecclesiastes 2:20

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

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Again I beheld all the travails of men, and busynesses; and I perceived that those be open to [the] envy of the neighbour; and therefore in this is vanity, and superfluous busyness.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

one there is, and he hath not a second; neither a son, nor a brother; and nevertheless he ceaseth not to travail, neither his eyes be filled with riches; neither he bethinketh him, and saith, To whom travail I, and deceive my soul in goods? In this also is vanity, and the worst torment.

Ecclesiastes 9:18

Better is wisdom than armours [or arms] of battle; and he that sinneth in one thing, shall lose many goods.

Jeremiah 22:15

Whether thou shalt reign, for thou comparisonest thee to a cedar? whether thy father ate not, and drank, and did doom and rightfulness [or rightwiseness] then, when it was well to him?

Jeremiah 22:17

Forsooth thine eyes and heart be to avarice, and to shed innocent blood, and to false challenge, and to the performing of evil work.