Ecclesiastes 2:20 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

²⁰ 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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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ So I turned around and gave my heart up to despair over all the labor of my efforts under the sun.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.

Common English Bible

²⁰ I then gave myself up to despair, as I thought about all my laborious hard work under the sun,

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Therefore, I ceased, and my heart renounced further laboring under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:20 Cross References

Genesis 43:14

May El Shaddai give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Binyamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.*

Ecclesiastes 2:19

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 2:21

For 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.

1 Corinthians 15:19

If we have only hoped in Messiah in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.