American King James Version
"Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor which I took under the sun. "
— Ecclesiastes 2:20, American King James Version
“Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.”
“Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun. ”
“Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.”
“So I began to despair about all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so hard on earth.”
“Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring anymore under the sun.”
“So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.”
“Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.”
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is worked under the sun is grievous to me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. ¶
Yes, I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it to the man that shall be after me.
And who knows 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.
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor which I took under the sun.
For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that has not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
For what has man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he has labored under the sun?
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yes, his heart takes not rest in the night. This is also vanity. ¶