Popular Bible Verses from Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) 2

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For He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His eyes. But to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and collecting, to give to him who is good before Elohim. That too is futile and feeding on wind.

A man could do no better but to eat and drink, and enjoy himself in his labour! That too, I saw, was from the hand of Elohim. For who eats or who finds enjoyment without Him?

But when I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labour in which I had toiled, see, all was futile and feeding on wind, and there was no gain under the sun.

And all that my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, for my heart rejoiced in all my labour. And this was my portion from all my labour.

Then I saw that wisdom is better than folly, as light is better than darkness.

The wise one’s eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And I also knew that one event befalls them all.

For a man might labour with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet he leaves his heritage to a man who has not laboured for it. That too is futile and a great evil.