21 For there is a man whose travail is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity: yet to a man that hath not travailed herein, shall he [a]give his portion: this also is vanity, and a great grief.

22 For what hath man of all his travail and grief of his heart, wherein he hath travailed under the Sun?

23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief: his heart also taketh not rest in the night: which also is vanity.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:21 Among other griefs that was not the least, to leave that which he had gotten by great travail, to one that had taken no pain therefore, and whom he knew not whether he were a wise man or a fool.

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