King James Version (KJV)
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?”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 2
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
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.
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
[There is] nothing better for a man, [than] that he should eat and drink, and [that] he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God.
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