19 And who knoweth whether he shall be wise or foolish? yet shall he have rule over all my labor, wherein I have travailed, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the Sun. This is also vanity.

20 Therefore I went about to make mine heart [a]abhor all the labor, wherein I had travailed under the Sun.

21 For there is a man whose travail is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity: yet to a man that hath not travailed herein, shall he [b]give his portion: this also is vanity, and a great grief.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:20 That I might seek the true felicity which is in God.
  2. Ecclesiastes 2:21 Among other griefs that was not the least, to leave that which he had gotten by great travail, to one that had taken no pain therefore, and whom he knew not whether he were a wise man or a fool.

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