SinaiEcclesiastes 2:19
American Standard Version
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.
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Ecclesiastes 2:19 in other translations
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.
Ecclesiastes 2:19 in context
- 17So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.
- 18And I hated all my labor wherein I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
- 19And 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.
- 20Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.
- 21For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.