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Ecclesiastes 2:26
Lexham English Bible
For to the person who is good in his eyes, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and heaping up only to give it to him who is pleasing to him. This also is vanity and chasing wind!
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Ecclesiastes 2:24-25
There is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink and find delight in his toil. For I also realized that this is from the hand of God! For who can eat and drink, and who can enjoy life apart from him?
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Ecclesiastes 2:11
Yet when I considered all the effort which I expended and the toil with which I toiled to do, then behold, “Everything is vanity and chasing wind! There is nothing profitable under the sun!”
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Ecclesiastes 2:10
I neither withheld anything from my eyes that they desired, nor did I deprive any pleasure from my heart. My heart rejoiced in all my toil, for this was my reward from all my toil.
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Ecclesiastes 2:13
I realized that wisdom has an advantage over folly, just as light has an advantage over darkness.
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Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man can see where he is walking, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that both of them suffer the same fate.
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Ecclesiastes 2:21
For although a person may toil with great wisdom and skill, he must leave his reward to someone who has not toiled for it. This also is vanity and a great calamity.
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