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Ecclesiastes 2

Eccl. 2:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Yea, I hated
sane' (Hebrew #8130)
to hate (personally)
KJV usage: enemy, foe, (be) hate(-ful, -r), odious, X utterly.
Pronounce: saw-nay'
Origin: a primitive root
all my labor
`amal (Hebrew #5999)
toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind
KJV usage: grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.
Pronounce: aw-mawl'
Origin: from 5998
which I had ρtaken
`amel (Hebrew #6001)
toiling; concretely, a laborer; figuratively, sorrowful
KJV usage: that laboureth, that is a misery, had taken (labour), wicked, workman.
Pronounce: aw-male'
Origin: from 5998
under the sun
shemesh (Hebrew #8121)
the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. (arch.) a notched battlement
KJV usage: + east side(-ward), sun ((rising)), + west(-ward), window. See also 1053.
Pronounce: sheh'-mesh
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be brilliant
: because I should leave
yanach (Hebrew #3240)
to deposit; by implication, to allow to stay
KJV usage: bestow, cast down, lay (down, up), leave (off), let alone (remain), pacify, place, put, set (down), suffer, withdraw, withhold. (The Hiphil forms with the dagesh are here referred to, in accordance with the older grammarians; but if any distinction of the kind is to be made, these should rather be referred to 5117, and the others here.)
Pronounce: yaw-nakh'
Origin: a primitive root
it unto the man
'adam (Hebrew #120)
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
KJV usage: X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Pronounce: aw-dawm'
Origin: from 119
that shall be after
'achar (Hebrew #310)
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
KJV usage: after (that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by, follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, + out (over) live, + persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence(-forth), when, with.
Pronounce: akh-ar'
Origin: from 309
me.
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labored.

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I hated.
Eccl. 2:4‑9• 4I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;
 5I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of every kind of fruit;
 6I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood, where the trees are reared.
 7I acquired servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that had been in Jerusalem before me.
 8I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces; I got me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the children of men, a wife and concubines.
 9And I became great, and increased more than all that had been before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. (Eccl. 2:4‑9)
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Eccl. 1:13• 13And I applied my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: this grievous occupation hath God given to the children of men to weary themselves therewith. (Eccl. 1:13)
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Eccl. 4:3• 3and more fortunate than both is he who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. (Eccl. 4:3)
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Eccl. 5:18• 18Behold what I have seen good and comely: it is to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour wherewith man laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for that is his portion. (Eccl. 5:18)
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Eccl. 9:9• 9Enjoy life with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity; for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherein thou art labouring under the sun. (Eccl. 9:9)
taken.
Heb. laboured.
I should.
Eccl. 2:26• 26For he giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good in God's sight. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind. (Eccl. 2:26)
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Eccl. 5:13‑14• 13There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;
 14or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand. (Eccl. 5:13‑14)
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1 Kings 11:11‑13• 11And Jehovah said to Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done by thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes which I commanded thee, I will certainly rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant:
 12notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father's sake; I will rend it out of the hand of thy son;
 13only, I will not rend away all the kingdom: I will give one tribe to thy son, for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen. (1 Kings 11:11‑13)
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Psa. 17:14• 14From men who are thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this age: their portion is in this life, and their belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure; they have their fill of sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their children. (Psa. 17:14)
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Psa. 39:6• 6Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. (Psa. 39:6)
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Psa. 49:10• 10For he seeth that wise men die; all alike, the fool and the brutish perish, and they leave their wealth to others. (Psa. 49:10)
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Luke 12:20• 20But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared? (Luke 12:20)
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Luke 16:27‑28• 27And he said, I beseech thee then, father, that thou wouldest send him to the house of my father,
 28for I have five brothers, so that he may earnestly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment. (Luke 16:27‑28)
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Acts 20:29‑30• 29For *I* know this, that there will come in amongst you after my departure grievous wolves, not sparing the flock;
 30and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them. (Acts 20:29‑30)
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1 Cor. 3:10• 10According to the grace of God which has been given to me, as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation, but another builds upon it. But let each see how he builds upon it. (1 Cor. 3:10)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And I hated all my labour wherewith I had been toiling under the sun, because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.