Ecclesiastes 2:20

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

1 Corinthians 15:19

If we are men who have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men more miserable.

Genesis 43:14

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

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all 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, and with knowledge, and with skillfulness, yet he shall leave it to a man who has not labored in it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.