Ecclesiastes 2:20

New English Translation

So I began to despair about all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so hard on earth.

Cross References

Genesis 43:14

May the sovereign God grant you mercy before the man so that he may release your other brother and Benjamin! As for me, if I lose my children I lose them.”

Ecclesiastes 2:19

Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master over all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so wisely on earth! This also is futile!

Ecclesiastes 2:21

For a man may do his work with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; however, he must hand over the fruit of his labor as an inheritance to someone else who did not work for it. This also is futile, and an awful injustice!

1 Corinthians 15:19

For if only in this life we have hope in Christ, we should be pitied more than anyone.