Ecclesiastes 2:18-20

New American Standard Bible 1995

The Futility of Labor

¹⁸ Thus I hated ^(A)all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must ^(B)leave it to the man who will come after me. ¹⁹ And who knows whether he will be a wise man or ^(C)a fool? Yet he will have ^[a]control over all the fruit of my labor for which I have labored by acting wisely under the sun. This too is ^(D)vanity. ²⁰ Therefore I ^[b]completely despaired of all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun.