Ecclesiastes 2:18-20

English Standard Version

The Vanity of Toil

¹⁸ I hated ^(A)all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must ^(B)leave it to the man who will come after me, ¹⁹ and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity. ²⁰ So I ^(C)turned about and gave my heart up to despair ^(D)over all the toil of my labors under the sun,