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Ecclesiastes 2:26 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

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.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

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

25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?

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.

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

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"And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God."

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From This Chapter

Ecclesiastes 2:1

"I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity."

Ecclesiastes 2:2

"I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?"

Ecclesiastes 2:3

"I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life."

Ecclesiastes 2:4

"I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:"

Ecclesiastes 2:5

"I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:"

Ecclesiastes 2:6

"I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:"

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