Ecclesiastes 2:20

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18. Ecclesiastes 2:18

    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.

19. Ecclesiastes 2:19

    And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

21. Ecclesiastes 2:21

    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.

22. Ecclesiastes 2:22

    For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

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