Ecclesiastes 2:26 - American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ For to the man that pleaseth him God giveth wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that pleaseth God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ For to the person who pleases Him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and heaping up, that he may give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after the wind and a feeding on it.

Common English Bible

²⁶ because God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy to those who please God. But to those who are offensive, God gives the task of hoarding and accumulating, but only so as to give it all to those who do please God. This too is pointless and a chasing after wind.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ God has given, to the man who is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and rejoicing. But to the sinner, he has given affliction and needless worrying, so as to add, and to gather, and to deliver, to him who has pleased God. But this, too, is emptiness and a hollow worrying of the mind.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.

English Standard Version 2016

²⁶ For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:26 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 7:1

And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Job 32:8

But there is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

Job 38:36

Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who hath given understanding to the mind?

Psalm 39:6

Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Psalm 51:6

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts; And in the hidden part thou wilt make me to know wisdom.

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children; And the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

Proverbs 2:6

For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:

Proverbs 28:8

He that augmenteth his substance by interest and increase, Gathereth it for him that hath pity on the poor.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:25

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

Ecclesiastes 3:10

I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

Luke 1:6

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

John 16:24

Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full.

James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy.