The burden of leaving labor to a successor
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Ecclesiastes 2:17–23: The speaker grieves that a successor, wise or foolish, will control the result of his labor; a worker may have sorrow and no rest at night, then leave the gain to one who did not labor for it.
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- ECC 2:17–23, engwebp
17So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
18I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
19Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
20Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.
21For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
22For what does a man have of all his labor and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?
23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: The burden of leaving labor to a successor (event-ecc-2-labor-left-to-a-successor) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/event/ecc-2-labor-left-to-a-successor Current wording: Ecclesiastes 2:17–23: The speaker grieves that a successor, wise or foolish, will control the result of his labor; a worker may have sorrow and no rest at night, then leave the gain to one who did not labor for it. Cited evidence: ECC 2:17–23, engwebp Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.