Ecclesiastes 2:20 - King James Version - American Edition

²⁰ Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor which I took under the sun.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ 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)

²⁰ Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.

Common English Bible

²⁰ I then gave myself up to despair, as I thought about all my laborious hard work under the sun,

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Therefore, I ceased, and my heart renounced further laboring under the sun.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring any more under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:20 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 43:14

and God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. 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 labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:21

For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not labored 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 hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.