Ecclesiastes 2:21
"For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil."
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- Ecclesiastes 2:17
"Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit."
Read in chapter → - 2 Chronicles 36:5
"Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God."
Read in chapter → - 2 Chronicles 34:2
"And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left."
Read in chapter → - 2 Chronicles 31:20
"And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God."
Read in chapter → - 2 Chronicles 33:2
"But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel."
Read in chapter → - 2 Chronicles 35:18
"And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 22:17
"But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 9:18
"Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 22:15
"Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?"
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