Ecclesiastes 2:18 — Compare Translations

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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.

And I hated all my labor wherein I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

English Amplified

And I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will succeed me. [Ps. 49:10.]

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

And I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will succeed me. [Ps. 49:10.]

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

I hated all my work that I labored at under the sun because I must leave it to the one who comes after me.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

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.

English EASY 2024

I thought about all the hard work that I have done here on the earth. When I die, all the things that I worked so hard to get will belong to the next king. So I hated all my hard work.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

I began to hate all the hard work I had done, because I saw that the people who live after me will get the things that I worked for. I will not be able to take them with me.

English ESV 2016 == The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles

I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me,

English GNT (Good News Translation)

Nothing that I had worked for and earned meant a thing to me, because I knew that I would have to leave it to my successor,

English God's Word - GW 1995

I came to hate everything for which I had worked so hard under the sun, because I will have to leave it to the person who replaces me.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

I hated all my work at which I labored under the sun because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

English KJV 1611

Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

I despised all the toil in which I labored under the sun, which I will give up to the man who comes after me.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

And I detested all the fruits of my labor under the sun, because I must leave them to a man who is to come after me.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

So I loathed all the fruit of my effort, for which I worked so hard on earth, because I must leave it behind in the hands of my successor.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

I hated everything I had worked for on earth. I'll have to leave all of it to someone who lives after me.

I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me.

English NKJ 1982

Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

I am disgusted that I must leave the fruits of my hard work to others.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to those who come after me

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me;

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

And I am disgusted about this—that I must leave the fruits of all my hard work to others.

English Tyndale 1537

Yea I was weary of all my labour, which I had taken under the Sun, because I should be fain to leave them unto another man, that cometh after me