Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there anything so vain? who knoweth Ecclesiastes 3:22 And I have found that nothing is better than for a man to rejoice in his work, and that this is his portion. For who shall bring him to know the things that shall be after him? 1 Kings 12:14 And he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying: My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: My father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions. 1 Kings 14:25-28 And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem. . . . 2 Chronicles 10:13-16 And the king answered roughly, leaving the counsel of the ancients. . . . 2 Chronicles 12:9,10 So Sesac king of Egypt departed from Jerusalem, taking away the treasures of the king's house, and he took all with him, and the golden shields that Solomon had made, . . . wise under Ecclesiastes 9:13 This wisdom also I have seen under the sun, and it seemed to me to be very great: Luke 16:8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light. James 1:17 Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration. James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation. Context The Futility of Work18Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me, 19Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there anything so vain?20Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring anymore under the sun.… Cross References 1 Timothy 6:10 For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some coveting have erred from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows. 1 Kings 12:13 And the king answered the people roughly, leaving the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, Ecclesiastes 2:20 Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring anymore under the sun. Lexicon And whoוּמִ֣י (ū·mî) Conjunctive waw | Interrogative Strong's Hebrew 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix knows יוֹדֵ֗עַ (yō·w·ḏê·a‘) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 3045: To know whether he will be יִהְיֶה֙ (yih·yeh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be a wise הֶֽחָכָ֤ם (he·ḥā·ḵām) Article | Adjective - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 2450: Wise man or א֣וֹ (’ōw) Conjunction Strong's Hebrew 176: Desire, if a fool? סָכָ֔ל (sā·ḵāl) Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 5530: A fool Yet he will take וְיִשְׁלַט֙ (wə·yiš·laṭ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 7980: To dominate, govern, to permit over all בְּכָל־ (bə·ḵāl) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every the labor עֲמָלִ֔י (‘ă·mā·lî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's Hebrew 5999: Toil, wearing effort, worry, wheth, of body, mind at which I have worked שֶֽׁעָמַ֥לְתִּי (še·‘ā·mal·tî) Pronoun - relative | Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's Hebrew 5998: To toil, work severely and with irksomeness skillfully וְשֶׁחָכַ֖מְתִּי (wə·še·ḥā·ḵam·tî) Conjunctive waw, Pr | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular Strong's Hebrew 2449: To be wise under תַּ֣חַת (ta·ḥaṯ) Preposition Strong's Hebrew 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of the sun. הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ (haš·šā·meš) Article | Noun - common singular Strong's Hebrew 8121: The sun, the east, a ray, a notched battlement This זֶ֖ה (zeh) Pronoun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 2088: This, that too גַּם־ (gam-) Conjunction Strong's Hebrew 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and is futile. הָֽבֶל׃ (hā·ḇel) Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 1892: Emptiness, vanity, transitory, unsatisfactory Additional Translations And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.And who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity. And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? and whether he will have power over all my labour in which I laboured, and wherein I grew wise under the sun? this is also vanity. And who knoweth whether he will be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour at which I have laboured, and wherein I have been wise under the sun. This also is vanity. And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity. And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have showed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity. Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also is vanity. 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