Ecclesiastes 2:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

1 Corinthians 15:19

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

Genesis 43:14

and God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release unto you your other brother and Benjamin. And if I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:21

For there is a man whose labour is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.