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Ecclesiastes 2:21

World English Bible

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.

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Ecclesiastes 2:21 in other translations

For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

Ecclesiastes 2:21 · American Standard Version

Ecclesiastes 2:21 in context

  1. 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.
  2. 20Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.
  3. 21For 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.
  4. 22For what does a man have of all his labor and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?
  5. 23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.