Ecclesiastes 2:20
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
Context
This verse from Ecclesiastes Chapter 2 connects to 10 cross-references. Qohelet reports his experiments in pleasure, building projects, vineyards, gardens, and acquiring wealth, finding that all was vanity and chasing after wind. He observes that the wise person dies just like the fool. Yet there is some good in toil, …
Autres traductions
Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.
And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.
So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.
Références croisées
And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If …
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth …
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were …
Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver …
That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came …