The Anxiety of Labor and Inheritance

Ecclesiastes 2:18-23

I hated all the things for which I had worked under the sun, because I saw that I would have to leave them to the man who will come after me.

Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the things I worked for and which demonstrated how wise I am under the sun. This too is pointless.

Thus I came to despair over all the things I had worked for under the sun.

Here is a man whose work is done with wisdom, knowledge and skill; yet he has to leave it to someone who has put no work into it. This is not only pointless, but a great evil.

For what does a person get from all his efforts and ambitions permeating the work he does under the sun?

His whole life is one of pain, and his work is full of stress; even at night his mind gets no rest. This too is pointless.

The Anxiety of Labor and Inheritance

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