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20 Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun. 21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with [a]skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he [b]leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil. 22 For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the [c]striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:21 Or, success
  2. Ecclesiastes 2:21 Hebrew give.
  3. Ecclesiastes 2:22 Or, vexation