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Ecclesiastes 2

Eccl. 2:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Therefore I went about
cabab (Hebrew #5437)
to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively (as follows)
KJV usage: bring, cast, fetch, lead, make, walk, X whirl, X round about, be about on every side, apply, avoid, beset (about), besiege, bring again, carry (about), change, cause to come about, X circuit, (fetch a) compass (about, round), drive, environ, X on every side, beset (close, come, compass, go, stand) round about, inclose, remove, return, set, sit down, turn (self) (about, aside, away, back).
Pronounce: saw-bab'
Origin: a primitive root
to cause
ya'ash (Hebrew #2976)
to desist, i.e. (figuratively) to despond
KJV usage: (cause to) despair, one that is desperate, be no hope.
Pronounce: yaw-ash'
Origin: a primitive root
my heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
to despair
ya'ash (Hebrew #2976)
to desist, i.e. (figuratively) to despond
KJV usage: (cause to) despair, one that is desperate, be no hope.
Pronounce: yaw-ash'
Origin: a primitive root
of all the 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 took
`amal (Hebrew #5998)
to toil, i.e. work severely and with irksomeness
KJV usage: (take) labour (in).
Pronounce: aw-mal'
Origin: a primitive root
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
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Cross References

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Gen. 43:14• 14And the Almighty God give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin! And I, if I be bereaved [of my children], am bereaved. (Gen. 43:14)
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Job 17:11‑15• 11My days are gone, my plans are broken —{HR}The possessions of my heart.
 12Night they put for day, light near,{HR}Out of the face of darkness!
 13If I wait, Sheol [is] my house,{HR}I have spread my bed in the darkness,
 14To corruption I have cried, Thou [art] my father,{HR}To the worm, my mother and my sister.
 15Where then now [is] my hope?{HR}Yea, my hope, who beholdeth it? (Job 17:11‑15)
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Psa. 39:6‑7• 6Surely in an image doth man walk;{HR}Surely in vain are they disquieted:{HR}He hoardeth, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
 7And now what wait I for, O Lord?{HR}My expectation [is] from thee. (Psa. 39:6‑7)
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1 Cor. 15:19• 19If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are most to be pitied of all men. (1 Cor. 15:19)
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2 Cor. 1:8‑10• 8For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, as to our tribulation that came to pass d in Asia, that we were excessively pressed beyond power, so as for us to despair even of our living.
 9But we ourselves have had in ourselves the sentence of death, that we should not have our trust in ourselves, but in God that raiseth the dead,
 10who delivered us from so great a death, and doth e deliver, in whom we have hope that he will also yet deliver, (2 Cor. 1:8‑10)
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1 Thess. 3:3‑4• 3that no one might be moved by these afflictions. For yourselves know that for this we are set.
 4For even when we were with you we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it came to pass, and ye know. (1 Thess. 3:3‑4)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Then I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour wherewith I had laboured under the sun.

W. Kelly Translation

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Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair{HR}Concerning all the labour wherein I had laboured under the sun.