Ecclesiastes 2:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ So I turned and gave my heart up to despair concerning 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, so that he may send back your other brother and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

Ecclesiastes 2:19

and who knows whether he will be wise or foolish? 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 one who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave all to be enjoyed by another 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 people most to be pitied.