Ecclesiastes 2:20

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Cross References

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.

1 Corinthians 15:19

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