Ecclesiastes 2:17-19

Legacy Standard Bible

¹⁷ So I ^(A)hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was ^[a]grievous to me; because everything is vanity and striving after wind.

The Vanity of Labor

¹⁸ Thus I hated ^(B)all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must ^(C)leave it to the man who will come after me. ¹⁹ And who knows whether he will be a wise man or ^(D)a man of simpleminded folly? Yet he will have ^[b]power over all the fruit of my labor for which I have labored and for which I have acted wisely under the sun. This too is ^(E)vanity.