Ecclesiastes 2:20

New Century Version

So I became sad about all the hard work I had done here on earth.

Cross References

Genesis 43:14

I pray that God Almighty will cause the governor to be merciful to you and that he will allow Simeon and Benjamin to come back with you. If I am robbed of my children, then I am robbed of them!”

Ecclesiastes 2:19

Someone else will control everything for which I worked so hard here on earth, and I don’t know if he will be wise or foolish. This is also useless.

Ecclesiastes 2:21

People can work hard using all their wisdom, knowledge, and skill, but they will die, and other people will get the things for which they worked. They did not do the work, but they will get everything. This is also unfair and useless.

1 Corinthians 15:19

If our hope in Christ is for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone else in the world.