Ecclesiastes 2:20 - Revised Standard Version

²⁰ So I turned about and gave my heart up to despair over all the toil of my labors 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring any more under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:20 Cross References

Genesis 43:14

may God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may send back your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

Ecclesiastes 2:19

and who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:21

because sometimes a man who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave all to be enjoyed by a man who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

1 Corinthians 15:19

If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied.