“Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ecclesiastes 2 contains 26 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.