Ecclesiastes 2:26 - New Revised Standard Version

²⁶ For to the one who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing 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.

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.

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.

Ecclesiastes 2:26 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 7:1

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation.

Job 32:8

But truly it is the spirit in a mortal, the breath of the Almighty, that makes for understanding.

Job 38:36

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts, or given understanding to the mind?

Psalm 39:6

Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up, and do not know who will gather.

Psalm 51:6

You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.

Proverbs 13:22

The good leave an inheritance to their children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.

Proverbs 2:6

For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

Proverbs 28:8

One who augments wealth by exorbitant interest gathers it for another who is kind to the poor.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to human beings to be busy with.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun; and see, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:25

for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment?

Ecclesiastes 3:10

I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with.

Luke 1:6

Both of them were righteous before God, living blamelessly according to all the commandments and regulations of the Lord.

John 16:24

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.