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Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 2 · verses 24–26 · King James Version
24There 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. 25For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I? 26For 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 2:24-26 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 in context
22For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
24There 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.
25For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
26For 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.
Cross references
- Ecclesiastes 3:22
- Ecclesiastes 8:15
- 1 Timothy 6:17
- Proverbs 13:22
- Job 27:16-17
- Proverbs 28:8
- Isaiah 3:10-11
- John 16:24
- 2 Chronicles 31:20-21
- Proverbs 3:13-18
- Colossians 3:16-17
Key words (Strong's)
- knowledgedaʻathknowledgeH1847 →
- travailʻinyânadoH6045 →
- betterṭôwbgood in the widest senseH2896 →
- labourʻâmâltoilH5999 →
- hastenchûwshto hurryH2363 →
- givethnâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
- wisdomchokmâhwisdomH2451 →
- sinnerchâṭâʼproperly, to missH2398 →
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