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Ecclesiastes 2:17-23

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17 So I came to hate life because everything done here under the sun is so troubling. Everything is meaningless—like chasing the wind.
17 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
18 I came to hate all my hard work here on earth, for I must leave to others everything I have earned.
18 I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me.
19 And who can tell whether my successors will be wise or foolish? Yet they will control everything I have gained by my skill and hard work under the sun. How meaningless!
19 And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless.
20 So I gave up in despair, questioning the value of all my hard work in this world.
20 So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun.
21 Some people work wisely with knowledge and skill, then must leave the fruit of their efforts to someone who hasn’t worked for it. This, too, is meaningless, a great tragedy.
21 For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune.
22 So what do people get in this life for all their hard work and anxiety?
22 What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?
23 Their days of labor are filled with pain and grief; even at night their minds cannot rest. It is all meaningless.
23 All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.
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