Ecclesiastes 2:18 meaning and explanation
I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
Ecclesiastes 2:18, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the Teacher, a Jerusalem king who has just surveyed his vast building projects, wealth and pleasures (verses 4 to 11). Having found them all futile, he now names a sharper grief: everything he worked for must pass to a successor he cannot control.
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