Ecclesiastes 2:19 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

¹⁹ And who shall know whether he shall be wise or foolish? And he shall have dominion over all my labor which I labored, and was wise under the sun. Also this is vanity.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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 myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have dominion over all my labor in which I have toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity (emptiness, falsity, and futility)!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ And who knows whether that one will be wise or foolish? Either way, that person will have control over the results of all my hard work and wisdom here under the sun. That too is pointless.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ though I know not whether he will be wise or foolish. And yet he will have power over my labors, in which I have toiled and been anxious. And is there anything else so empty?

Ecclesiastes 2:19 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 11:43

And Solomon will lie down with his fathers and be buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son will reign instead of him.

1 Kings 12:13

And the king will answer the people hard, and he will forsake the counsel of the old men which they counseled him;

Ecclesiastes 2:11

And I looked upon all my works my hands made, and upon the labor I labored to do, and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit, and no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:20

And I turned about to let my heart despair for all the labor I labored under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

And I saw that no good more than that man shall rejoice in his works; for this is his portion: for who shall bring him to look upon what shall be after him?

Ecclesiastes 9:13

Also this I saw, the wisdom under the sun, and it was great to me:

Luke 16:8

And the Lord praised the steward of injustice, because he did wisely: for the sons of this life are wiser than the children of light in their generation.

1 Timothy 6:10

For the root of all evils is the love of money: which some striving for, have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many pains.

James 1:17

Every good donation and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom not one change, or shadow of turning.

James 3:17

And the wisdom from above is truly first pure, then peaceful, decorous, docile, full of mercy and good fruits, not separated, and unfeigned.