Ecclesiastes 2:18

The Emptiness of Work

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

Ecclesiastes 2:18 In-Context

16 For, just like the fool, there is no lasting remembrance of the wise man, since in the days to come both will be forgotten. How is it that the wise man dies just like the fool?
17 Therefore, I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
18 I hated all my work at which I labored under the sun because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
19 And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will take over all my work that I labored at skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.
20 So I began to give myself over to despair concerning all my work I had labored at under the sun.
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