Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind.
18 Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun because (Ps. 49:10) I must leave it to the man who will come after me.
19 And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
20 Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun.
21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet he must leave his (Lit. portion) heritage to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
22 (Eccl. 1:3; 3:9) For what has [a] man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun?
23 For all his days are (Job 5:7; 14:1) sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
24 (Eccl. 3:12, 13, 22; Is. 56:12; Luke 12:19; 1 Cor. 15:32; [1 Tim. 6:17]) Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.
25 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, (So with MT, Tg., Vg.; some Heb. mss., LXX, Syr. without Him) more than I?
The New King James Version. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982. Print.
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