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


In Context

17 And I have hated life, for sad to me is the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit.

18 And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.

19 And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also is vanity.

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

21 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it — his portion! Even this is vanity and a great evil.

22 For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at 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 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.