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Ecclesiastes 2:20

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Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

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Ecclesiastes 2:20 in other translations

Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:20 · American Standard Version

Ecclesiastes 2:20 in context

  1. 18I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
  2. 19Who 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.
  3. 20Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.
  4. 21For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
  5. 22For what does a man have of all his labor and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?