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Ecclesiastes 2:21

Ecclesiastes chapter 2 · verse 21 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

Context

v.20Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.

v.21This passage

v.22For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:17

    So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Jeremiah 22:17

    But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:5

    Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah his God.

  • Jeremiah 22:15

    Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him.

  • 2 Chronicles 33:2

    And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, after the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Chronicles 34:2

    And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.