Ecclesiastes 2:20
King James Version (KJV)
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
In context
18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
21 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:20 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
- WEB World English Bible
- Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Then I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour wherewith I had laboured under the sun.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor which I took under the sun.