Ecclesiastes 2:20

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 43:14 : 14 and God Almighty give to you mercies before the man, so that he hath sent to you your other brother and Benjamin; and I, when I am bereaved -- I am bereaved.'
  • Job 17:11-15 : 11 My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart! 12 Night for day they appoint, Light `is' near because of darkness. 13 If I wait -- Sheol `is' my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch. 14 To corruption I have called: -- `Thou `art' my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' -- to the worm. 15 And where `is' now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?
  • Ps 39:6-7 : 6 Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, `in' vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them. 7 And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope -- it `is' of Thee.
  • 1 Cor 15:19 : 19 if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.
  • 2 Cor 1:8-9 : 8 For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above `our' power, so that we despaired even of life; 9 but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead, 10 who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;
  • 1 Thess 3:3-4 : 3 that no one be moved in these tribulations, for yourselves have known that for this we are set, 4 for even when we were with you, we said to you beforehand, that we are about to suffer tribulation, as also it did come to pass, and ye have known `it';

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 2:10-13
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    89%

    10And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,

    11and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

    12And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what `is' the man who cometh after the king? that which `is' already -- they have done it!

    13And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.

  • Eccl 2:17-19
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    88%

    17And 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.

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

    19And 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.

  • Eccl 2:21-26
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    21For 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.

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

    23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also `is' vanity.

    24There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it `is' from the hand of God.

    25For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?

    26For to a man who `is' good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 1:13-14
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    13And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It `is' a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

    14I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit!

  • Eccl 1:16-17
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    16I -- I spake with my heart, saying, `I, lo, I have magnified and added wisdom above every one who hath been before me at Jerusalem, and my heart hath seen abundantly wisdom and knowledge.

    17And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this `is' vexation of spirit;

  • Eccl 4:7-8
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    7And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:

    8There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and `he saith not', `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

  • Eccl 1:2-3
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    2Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole `is' vanity.

    3What advantage `is' to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

  • Eccl 2:15
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    15and I said in my heart, `As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this `is' vanity:

  • Eccl 4:4
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    4And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 8:15-17
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    15And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remaineth with him of his labour the days of his life that God hath given to him under the sun.

    16When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),

    17then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.

  • Eccl 2:1-4
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    1I said in my heart, `Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it `is' vanity.

    2Of laughter I said, `Foolish!' and of mirth, `What `is' this it is doing?'

    3I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where `is' this -- the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.

    4I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.

  • Eccl 7:25
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    25I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

  • Eccl 3:9-10
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    9What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?

    10I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it `is' his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole `is' vanity.

  • Eccl 8:9-10
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    9All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil.

    10And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also `is' vanity.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage `is' to man?

    12For who knoweth what `is' good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 5:16
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    16And this also `is' a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage `is' to him who laboureth for wind?

  • Eccl 4:15-16
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    15I have seen all the living, who are walking under the sun, with the second youth who doth stand in his place;

    16there is no end to all the people, to all who were before them; also, the latter rejoice not in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 9:1
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    1But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, `are' in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole `is' before them.

  • Eccl 6:1
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    1There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it `is' great on man:

  • Eccl 3:12
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    12I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,

  • Eccl 9:10
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    10All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

  • Eccl 9:13
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    13This also I have seen: wisdom under the sun, and it is great to me.

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3This `is' an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event `is' to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness `is' in their heart during their life, and after it -- unto the dead.

  • Eccl 3:18
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    18I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves `are' beasts.

  • Eccl 4:1
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    1And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors `is' power, and they have no comforter.