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22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,
    but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.

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16 “Even though he amasses silver like dust
    and piles up clothes like clay,

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17 it is the righteous who will wear those clothes
    and the innocent who will divide the silver.

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26 God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to those who please him, but to sinners he gives the task of gathering and amassing wealth that is to be given to someone who pleases him. This also is vanity and a chase after the wind.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:26 Qoheleth finds fault with the teaching of the sages concerning the problem of the wicked who prosper (see Job 27:16-17; Prov 11:8; 13:22). For him, this teaching about divine justice does not seem to be borne out by facts.