Ecclesiastes 2:20

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I thought about all my hard work, and I felt depressed.

Cross References

Genesis 43:14

When you go in to see the governor, I pray that God All-Powerful will be good to you and that the governor will let your other brother and Benjamin come back home with you. If I must lose my children, I suppose I must.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

Who knows if those people will be sensible or stupid? Either way, they will own everything I have earned by hard work and wisdom. It doesn't make sense.

Ecclesiastes 2:21

When we use our wisdom, knowledge, and skill to get what we own, why do we have to leave it to someone who didn't work for it? This is senseless and wrong.

1 Corinthians 15:19

If our hope in Christ is good only for this life, we are worse off than anyone else.