Ecclesiastes 2:20
Therefore I turned aside to give up my lev to despair over all the wearisome amal with which I toiled under the shemesh.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 43:14And El Shaddai give you rachamim before the ish, that he may send away achichem acher (your other brother), and Binyamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
Psalms 39:6Hinei, Thou hast made my yamim as a handbreadth, 1 and mine lifespan is as nothing before Thee; 1 verily kol adam stand as kol hevel (altogether vanity). 1 Selah 1
2 Corinthians 1:8For we do not want you to lack da'as, Achim b'Moshiach, as to the tzoros and tribulation that came upon us in Asia, + 1:8 Ac 19:23; 1C 15:32 that utterly beyond our strength we were burdened, causing us to come to a feeling of ye'ush (despair) even of being able to stay alive.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 2:18-26
Sources of Dissatisfaction; The Cheerful Use of Abundance. 17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. 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 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… Read the whole commentary →