Ecclesiastes 2:20

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What does Ecclesiastes 2:20 mean?

Ecclesiastes 2:20 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Ecclesiastes 2:20

• 1 Thessalonians 3:3-4

  That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

• Job 17:11-15

  My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. …

• Psalms 39:6-7

  Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

• Genesis 43:14

  And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

• 2 Corinthians 1:8-10

  For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

• 1 Corinthians 15:19

  If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

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Context

• Ecclesiastes 2:19

  And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

• Ecclesiastes 2:20

  Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

• Ecclesiastes 2:21

  For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

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