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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;{HR}I planted me vineyards;
 5I made me gardens and parks,{HR}And I planted trees in them of all [kinds of] fruit:
 6I made me pools of water,{HR}To water therefrom the forest where trees were reared;
 7I bought men-servants and maidens,{HR}And had servants born in my house;{HR}Also I had great possessions of herds and flocks,{HR}Above all that were before me in Jerusalem.
 8I gathered me also silver and gold,{HR}And the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces:{HR}I gat me men singers and women singers,{HR}And the delights of the sons of men, concubines very many.
 9So I was great, and increased{HR}More than all that were before me in Jerusalem:{HR}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 to search out by wisdom{HR}Concerning all that is done under heaven:{HR}It is a sore travail that God hath given{HR}To the sons of men to be exercised therewith. (Eccl. 1:13)
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Eccl. 4:3• 3Yea, better than them both did I esteem him which hath not yet been,{HR}Who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. (Eccl. 4:3)
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Eccl. 5:18• 18Behold, that which I have seen to be good{HR}And to be comely is for one to eat and to drink,{HR}And to enjoy good in all his labour,{HR}Wherein he laboureth under the sun,{HR}All the days of his life which God hath given him:{HR}For this is his portion. (Eccl. 5:18)
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Eccl. 9:9• 9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest{HR}All the days of the life of thy vanity,{HR}Which he hath given thee under the sun,{HR}All the days of thy vanity:{HR}For that is thy portion in life,{HR}And in thy labour wherein thou labourest under the sun. (Eccl. 9:9)
taken.
Heb. laboured.
I should.
Eccl. 2:26• 26For to the man that pleaseth him God giveth wisdom,{HR}And knowledge, and joy:{HR}But to the sinner he giveth travail,{HR}To gather and to heap up,{HR}That he may give to him that pleaseth God.{HR}This also [is] vanity and a striving after wind. (Eccl. 2:26)
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Eccl. 5:13‑14• 13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun,{HR}Riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt;
 14And those riches perish by evil adventure;{HR}And if he hath begotten a son,{HR}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, thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of the world:{HR}Their portion is in this life and [with] thy treasure thou fillest their belly;{HR}They are satisfied with sons, and they leave their abundance to their children. (Psa. 17:14)
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Psa. 39:6• 6Surely in an image doth man walk;{HR}Surely in vain are they disquieted:{HR}He hoardeth, and knoweth not who shall gather them. (Psa. 39:6)
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Psa. 49:10• 10For he seeth [that] wise men die;{HR}Together the fool and the brutish man perish{HR}And have left to others their wealth. (Psa. 49:10)
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Luke 12:20• 20But God said unto 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 wouldst send him to the house of my father,
 28for I have five brothers, so that he may earnestly testify unto them, that they also may not come to this place of torment. (Luke 16:27‑28)
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Acts 20:29‑30• 29I know that after my departure grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock;
 30and from among your own selves shall men arise speaking things perverted to draw the disciples after them. (Acts 20:29‑30)
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1 Cor. 3:10• 10According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise architect I laid the foundation and another buildeth on [it]. But let each see how he buildeth on [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.

W. Kelly Translation

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And I hated all my labour wherein I laboured under the sun:{HR}Seeing that I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me.