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Ecclesiastes 2:18

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

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Ecclesiastes 2:18 in other translations

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.

Ecclesiastes 2:18 · American Standard Version

Ecclesiastes 2:18 in context

  1. 16For 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!
  2. 17So 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.
  3. 18I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
  4. 19Who 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.
  5. 20Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.