Ecclesiastes 2:18
World English Bible (WEB)
I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
In context
16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!
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.
Ecclesiastes 2:18 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
- KJV King James Version
- 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And I hated all my labor wherein I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 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.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And I hated all my labour wherewith I had been toiling under the sun, because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
- WBS Webster Bible
- 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.