Ecclesiastes 2:17-19

New American Standard Bible 1995

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

The Futility 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 fool? Yet he will have ^[b]control over all the fruit of my labor for which I have labored by acting wisely under the sun. This too is ^(E)vanity.