Ecclesiastes 6:2
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2 those to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that they lack nothing of all that they desire, yet God does not enable them to enjoy these things, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous ill.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 5:19
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19 Likewise, all to whom God gives wealth and possessions and whom he enables to enjoy them and to accept their lot and find enjoyment in their toil—this is the gift of God.(A)
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Psalm 17:14
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14 from mortals—by your hand, O Lord—
from mortals whose portion in life is in this world.
May their bellies be filled with what you have stored up for them;
may their children have more than enough;
may they leave something over to their little ones.(A)
Psalm 73:7
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7 Their eyes swell out with fatness;
their hearts overflow with follies.(A)
Luke 12:19-20
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19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’(A) 20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’(B)
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Job 21:9-15
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9 Their houses are safe from fear,
and no rod of God is upon them.(A)
10 Their bull breeds without fail;
their cow calves and never miscarries.(B)
11 They send out their little ones like a flock,
and their children dance around.
12 They sing to the tambourine and the lyre
and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.(C)
13 They spend their days in prosperity,
and in peace they go down to Sheol.(D)
14 They say to God, ‘Leave us alone!
We do not desire to know your ways.(E)
15 What is the Almighty,[a] that we should serve him?
And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’(F)
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- 21.15 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
1 Kings 3:13
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13 I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor all your life; no other king shall compare with you.(A)
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Hosea 7:9
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9 Foreigners devour his strength,
but he does not know it;
gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,
but he does not know it.(A)
Daniel 5:18
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18 As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar kingship, greatness, glory, and majesty.(A)
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Lamentations 5:2
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2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our homes to aliens.(A)
Ecclesiastes 5:16
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16 This also is a grievous ill: just as they came, so shall they go, and what gain do they have from toiling for the wind?(A)
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Ecclesiastes 4:8
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8 the case of solitary individuals, without sons or brothers; yet there is no end to all their toil, and their eyes are never satisfied with riches. “For whom am I toiling,” they ask, “and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 4:4
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4 Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from one person’s envy of another. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 2:4-10
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4 I made great works; I built houses and planted vineyards for myself;(A) 5 I made myself gardens and parks and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.(B) 6 I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees. 7 I bought male and female slaves and had slaves who were born in my house; I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem. 8 I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and delights of the flesh, many concubines.[a](C)
9 So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me.(D) 10 Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure from all my toil, and this was my reward from all my toil.(E)
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- 2.8 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Psalm 39:6
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6 Surely everyone goes about like a shadow.
Surely for nothing they are in turmoil;
they heap up and do not know who will gather.(A)
2 Chronicles 1:11
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11 God answered Solomon, “Because this was in your heart and you have not asked for possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you and have not even asked for long life but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may rule my people over whom I have made you king,(A)
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1 Chronicles 29:28
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28 He died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor, and his son Solomon succeeded him.(A)
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1 Chronicles 29:25
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25 The Lord highly exalted Solomon in the sight of all Israel and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.(A)
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Judges 18:10
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10 When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people. The land is broad—God has indeed given it into your hands—a place where there is no lack of anything on earth.”(A)
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Deuteronomy 28:43
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43 Aliens residing among you shall ascend above you higher and higher, while you shall descend lower and lower.(A)
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Deuteronomy 28:33
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33 A people whom you do not know shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors; you shall be continually abused and crushed(A)
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Deuteronomy 8:7-10
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7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with flowing streams, with springs and underground waters welling up in valleys and hills,(A) 8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey, 9 a land where you may eat bread without scarcity, where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you may mine copper. 10 You shall eat your fill and bless the Lord your God for the good land that he has given you.(B)
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