Ecclesiastes 2:18 Cross References - NSB

¹⁸ I hated all the work I had done under the sun, because I would leave it behind for the man who comes after me.

¹¹ So Jehovah said to Solomon: »Because you have done this, and have not kept the agreement and laws I gave you, I will take the kingdom away from you by force and will give it to your servant. ¹² »I will not do it in your lifetime, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son. ¹³ »Still I will not take the entire kingdom from him. I will give one tribe to your son, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town of my selection.«

¹⁴ With your power (by your hand) rescue me from mortals, O Jehovah, from mortals who look forward only to this life. You fill their bellies with your treasure. Their children are satisfied with it, and they leave what remains to their children.

¹⁰ One can see that wise people die, that foolish and stupid people meet the same end. They leave their wealth to others.

⁶ »Every man walks about like a vain illusion. He makes a lot of noise over nothing. He hoards riches and does not know who will receive them.

³ What profit does a man have of all his labor that he works under the sun?

¹³ I devoted myself to study and explored wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens. It is a grievous task God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

⁴ I made great works. I built houses for myself. I planted vineyards for myself. ⁵ I made myself parks and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all kinds. ⁶ I made water pools from which to water the young trees. ⁷ I acquired male and female servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me. ⁸ I gathered silver and gold and the wealth of kings and of countries. I acquired male and female singers, the delights of the sons of men, girls of all sorts to be my brides. ⁹ I became great and increased more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem and my wisdom remained with me.

²⁶ To the man who is good, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy. But to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

³ Better off then both of them is the one who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

¹³ I have seen a grievous evil under the sun. I have seen riches being hoarded by their owner to his downfall (distress). ¹⁴ When those riches were lost through a bad investment and he fathered a son, then there was no support for him.

¹⁸ This is what I have seen. It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink and enjoy the good of his labor. He labors under the sun all the days of his life. For God gives this to him as his allotment (inheritance).

⁹ Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. That is your share in this life and in your labor under the sun.

²⁰ »But God said to him: ‘You fool this night you will give up your life. Then who will have all these things you accumulated?’

²⁷ »The rich man said: I beg you, father Abraham, send Lazarus to my father’s house. ²⁸ »Have him go warn my five brothers that they will not come to this place of torment.

²⁹ »I know that after my departing grievous wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock. ³⁰ »Such men will arise from among you speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after them.

¹⁰ According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man take heed how he builds.