Ecclesiastes Chapter 2 verse 20 Holy Bible
Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.
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So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.
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Then I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour wherewith I had laboured under the sun.
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Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
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Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.
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And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair; Ἐπέστρεψα ἐγὼ (Septuagint). "I turned" in order to examine more closely. So in ver. 12 we had, "I turned myself," though the verbs are not the same in the two passages, and in the former the LXX. has ἐπέβλεψα. I turned from my late course of action to give myself up to despair. I lost all hope in labor; it had no longer any charm or future for me. Septuagint, Τοῦ ἀποτάξασθαι τὴν καρδίαν μου ἐν παντὶ μόχθῳ μου κ.τ.λ.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) Went about.--Ecclesiastes 7:25; Ecclesiastes 9:14; Ecclesiastes 12:5.
