Contradictions Catalog of Ecclesiastes 2:24
Ecclesiastes 2:24 contradicts following 14 verses in the Bible. Check out Contradictions and Paradoxes of Ecclesiastes 2:24 for quick understanding.
Ecclesiastes 2:24: [There is] nothing better for a man, [than] that he should eat and drink, and [that] he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God. [should make...: or, delight his senses]
| # | Contradicting Verse | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Deuteronomy 16:15 | Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. |
| 2. | Psalms 49:10 | For he seeth [that] wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. |
| 3. | Psalms 116:13 | I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. |
| 4. | Proverbs 15:15 | All the days of the afflicted [are] evil: but he that is of a merry heart [hath] a continual feast. |
| 5. | Proverbs 21:17 | He that loveth pleasure [shall be] a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich. [pleasure: or, sport] |
| 6. | Ecclesiastes 5:12 | The sleep of a labouring man [is] sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. |
| 7. | Ecclesiastes 10:15 | The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city. |
| 8. | Matthew 16:26 | For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? |
| 9. | Luke 7:33 | For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. |
| 10. | 1 Corinthians 15:32 | If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die. [after...: or, to speak after the manner of men] |
| 11. | Colossians 3:2 | Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. [affection: or, mind] |
| 12. | James 4:4 | Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. |
| 13. | 1 Peter 2:11 | Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; |
| 14. | 1 Peter 4:3 | For the time past of [our] life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: |
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