may God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may send back your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”
Ecclesiastes 2:20 - Revised Standard Version So I turned about and gave my heart up to despair over all the toil of my labors 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 God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may send back your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”
and who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.
because sometimes a man who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave all to be enjoyed by a man who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied.