Quotes about Inheritance
I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
— Ecclesiastes 2:18
For the youth has come from the prison to the kingship, though he was born poor in his own kingdom.
— Ecclesiastes 4:14
I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed this second one, the youth who succeeded the king.
— Ecclesiastes 4:15
There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
— Ecclesiastes 4:16
or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
— Ecclesiastes 5:14
Wisdom, like an inheritance, is good, and it benefits those who see the sun.
— Ecclesiastes 7:11
The LORD of Hosts will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt My people, Assyria My handiwork, and Israel My inheritance.”
— Isaiah 19:25
So they will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the lesser vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.
— Isaiah 22:24
He has allotted their portion; His hand has distributed it by measure. They will possess it forever; they will dwell in it from generation to generation.
— Isaiah 34:17
Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’”
— Isaiah 45:10
Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’
— Isaiah 49:20
For you will spread out to the right and left; your descendants will dispossess the nations and inhabit the desolate cities.
— Isaiah 54:3