OLD TESTAMENT

Ecclesiastes 2:20

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

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Verse 20. Off, in a sort of despair; suggested by worldly wisdom. Religion alone can impart steady principles. Calmet.—Prot. “I went about, to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun;” in the transactions of the world. Bible.

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