May El Shaddai give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Binyamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.*
Ecclesiastes 2:20 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So I turned around and gave my heart up to despair over all the labor of my efforts under the sun. American Standard Version (1901) Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun. Common English Bible I then gave myself up to despair, as I thought about all my laborious hard work under the sun, Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, I ceased, and my heart renounced further laboring under the sun. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring any more under the sun. |
May El Shaddai give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Binyamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.*
Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
If we have only hoped in Messiah in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.