Ecclesiastes 2:20 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁰ So I turned my heart and despaired of all the labour in which I had toiled 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

And Ěl Shaddai give to you compassion before the man, so that he shall release your other brother and Binyamin. And I, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved!

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows whether he is wise or foolish? Yet he shall rule over all my labour in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. That too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 2:21

For a man might labour with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet he leaves his heritage to a man who has not laboured for it. That too is futile and a great evil.

1 Corinthians 15:19

If in this life only we have expectation in Messiah, we are of all men the most wretched.