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Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:20 · WEB

This verse in other languages

ગુજરાતીસભાશિક્ષક ૨:૨૦
તેથી હું ફર્યો, અને પૃથ્વી પર જે સર્વ કામો માટે મેં પરિશ્રમ કર્યો હતો તે પ્રત્યે મેં મારા મનને નિરાશ કર્યું.
हिन्दीसभोपदेशक २:२०
तब मैं अपने मन में उस सारे परिश्रम के विषय जो मैंने सूर्य के नीचे किया था निराश हुआ,

In context

18I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

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.

20Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

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.

22For what does a man have of all his labor and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?

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