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Ecclesiastes 2:18
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16 For there is ano more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever,
Since all that now is will be forgotten in the days to come.
And how does a wise man die?
As the fool!  
17 Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind.
18 Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because aI must leave it to the man who will come after me.  
19 And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
20 Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun.
21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet he must leave his1 heritage to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.  
22 aFor what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun?  
23 For all his days are asorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.  
24 aNothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.  
25 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment,1 more than I?  
26 For God gives awisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that bhe may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind. 
Verse Comparison: Ecclesiastes 2:18

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American Standard Version
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.

Amplified® Bible
And I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will succeed me.

Contemporary English Version
Suddenly I realized that others would someday get everything I had worked for so hard, then I started hating it all.

Darby English Version
And I hated all my labour wherewith I had been toiling under the sun, because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

Good News Bible
Nothing that I had worked for and earned meant a thing to me, because I knew that I would have to leave it to my successor,

King James Version
Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

New American Standard Bible
Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

New International Version
I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me.

New King James Version
Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

Revised Standard Version
I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me;

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


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