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Ecclesiastes 2:26 (MSG)

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²⁶ God may give wisdom and knowledge and joy to his favorites, but sinners are assigned a life of hard labor, and end up turning their wages over to God's favorites. Nothing but smoke--and spitting into the wind.


This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 26) Pleasing God - To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness
(v. 26) Money / Greed / Debt / Wealth / Stealing / Covet - God gives the sinner the task of gathering and storing up wealth for the ones who pleases God