18 I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me.(A)

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18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

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18 Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because (A)I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

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21 For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune.

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21 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

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21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet he must leave his [a]heritage to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:21 Lit. portion

20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool!(A) This very night your life will be demanded from you.(B) Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’(C)

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20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

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20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night (A)your soul will be required of you; (B)then whose will those things be which you have provided?’

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