Ecclesiastes 2:19 meaning and explanation
And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.
Ecclesiastes 2:19, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the Teacher, a Jerusalem king who has tested pleasure, building projects, wealth and achievement and found them hollow. Here he faces a specific sting: everything he has labored over skillfully must pass to his successor, and he cannot know whether that person will be wise or foolish.
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