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


In Context

17 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.

18 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.

19 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.

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

21 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.

22 For what has man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he has labored under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:20Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:20So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:20Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring any more under the sun.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:20Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:20Then I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour wherewith I had laboured under the sun.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:20Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour wherein I had laboured under the sun.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:20Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor which I took under the sun.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:20Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:20And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.