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


In Context

17 So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

18 I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

19 Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

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

21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

22 For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors 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 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.

The American King James Version 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.