Ecclesiastes 2:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 43:14
And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
1 Corinthians 15:19
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
1 Thessalonians 3:3-4
That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. …
Job 17:11-15
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. …
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. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-26)

Business is a thing that wise men have pleasure in. They are in their element when they are in their business, and complain if they be out of business. They may sometimes be tired with their business, but they are not weary of it, nor willing to leave it off. Here therefore one would expect to have found the good that men should do, but Solomon tried this too; after a contemplative life and a volu…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. I gave up as desperate all hope of solid fruit from my labor.