11 When I considered all that I had accomplished[a] and what I had labored to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind.[b](A) There was nothing to be gained under the sun.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:11 Lit all my works that my hands had done
  2. 2:11 Or a feeding on wind, or an affliction of spirit; also in vv. 17,26

22 For what does a person get with all his work and all his efforts(A) that he labors at under the sun?

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What does the worker gain from his struggles?(A)

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16 This too is a sickening tragedy: exactly as he comes, so he will go. What does the one gain(A) who struggles for the wind?(B)

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