Ecclesiastes 2:19
And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.
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Ecclesiastes 2:19
And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.
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Ecclesiastes 2:18
Hate had I for all my work which I had done, because the man who comes after me will have its fruits.
Ecclesiastes 2:19
And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 2:20
So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:21
Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.
Ecclesiastes 2:22
What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:23
All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:10
And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:3
What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:15
Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.
Psalms 39:5
You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
Ecclesiastes 2:1
I said in my heart, I will give you joy for a test; so take your pleasure--but it was to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 2:4
I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.
Ecclesiastes 2:8
I got together silver and gold and the wealth of kings and of countries. I got makers of song, male and female; and the delights of the sons of men--girls of all sorts to be my brides.
Jeremiah 22:15
Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?
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Psalms 39:6
Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
Psalms 49:10
For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others.
Psalms 49:11
The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.
Ecclesiastes 5:14
And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.
Ecclesiastes 5:15
As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.
Ecclesiastes 5:16
And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?
1 Timothy 6:7
For we came into the world with nothing, and we are not able to take anything out;
Esther 8:1
That day the king gave all the family of Haman, the hater of the Jews, to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had made clear what he was to her.
Esther 8:2
And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther put Mordecai over the family of Haman.
Psalms 49:17
For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.
Proverbs 11:4
Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.
Proverbs 23:5
Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
Jeremiah 17:11
Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.
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Ecclesiastes 2:16
Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:12
And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.
Ecclesiastes 6:2
A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.
Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.
Ecclesiastes 5:10
He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 6:11
There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?
Ecclesiastes 8:9
All this have I seen, and have given my heart to all the work which is done under the sun: there is a time when man has power over man for his destruction.
Ecclesiastes 9:13
This again I have seen under the sun as wisdom and it seemed great to me.
Ecclesiastes 11:8
But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.
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Ecclesiastes 2:24
There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 2:25
Who may take food or have pleasure without him?
Ecclesiastes 2:26
To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 3:21
Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth?
Ecclesiastes 3:22
So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?
James 3:17
But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.
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Ecclesiastes 4:16
There was no end of all the people, of all those whose head he was, but they who come later will have no delight in him. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
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Proverbs 10:1
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
Proverbs 15:20
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.
Proverbs 23:15
My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;
Proverbs 23:16
And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.
Proverbs 23:24
The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.
Proverbs 23:25
Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.
Proverbs 17:21
He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.
Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.
Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.
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Job 14:21
His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.
Ecclesiastes 9:5
The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.
Ecclesiastes 9:6
Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.
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Job 27:16
Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;
Job 27:17
He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage.
Proverbs 13:22
The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.
Proverbs 28:8
He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.
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Psalms 119:133
Let my steps be guided by your word; and let not sin have control over me.
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Ecclesiastes 4:13
A young man who is poor and wise is better than a king who is old and foolish and will not be guided by the wisdom of others.
Ecclesiastes 4:14
Because out of a prison the young man comes to be king, though by birth he was only a poor man in the kingdom.
Ecclesiastes 4:15
I saw all the living under the sun round the young man who was to be ruler in place of the king.
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1 Samuel 8:3
And his sons did not go in his ways, but moved by the love of money took rewards, and were not upright in judging.
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1 Kings 12:15
So the king did not give ear to the people; and this came about by the purpose of the Lord, so that what he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, son of Nebat, might be effected.
1 Kings 14:26
And took away all the stored wealth from the house of the Lord, and from the king's house, and all the gold body-covers which Solomon had made.
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1 Kings 12:19
So Israel was turned away from the family of David to this day.
2 Chronicles 10:14
But gave them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.
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Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
1 Timothy 6:6
But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit:
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