Ecclesiastes 2:20 KJV — MannaFest

Ecclesiastes 2:20

Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

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ASV

Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.

WEB

So my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.

YLT

And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.

DBT

Then I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour wherewith I had laboured under the sun.

About this book

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Ecclesiastes — Qohelet the Preacher — ''vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'' The book's relentless examination of life under the sun, resolving not in despair but in ''fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.''

Author: Traditional: Solomon (''son of David, king in Jerusalem''). Critical: a later Qohelet figure writing in Solomonic persona. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer carries the position.
Date: Solomonic reading: c. 940 BC. Critical reading: Persian or early Hellenistic period (5th–3rd century BC).

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Psalms 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Psalms 39:6–7
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
1 Corinthians 15:19
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
2 Corinthians 1:8–10
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

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There is business above the sun, perpetual business, which is perpetual blessedness; what we do in conformity to that business (doing God's will as it is done in heaven ) and in pursuance of that blessedness, will turn to a good account; we shall have no reason to hate that labour, nor to despair of it.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Our hearts are very loth to quit their expectations of great things from the creature; we must go about, must fetch a compass, in arguing with them, to convince them that there is not that in the things of this world which we are apt to promise ourselves from them.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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