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Ecclesiastes 2:26 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind. "

Ecclesiastes 2:26

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24 There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

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

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

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Ecclesiastes 2:1

"I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity."

Ecclesiastes 2:2

"I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”"

Ecclesiastes 2:3

"I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives."

Ecclesiastes 2:4

"I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards."

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"I made myself pools of water, to water the forest where trees were grown."

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