New Revised Standard Version
So I turned and gave my heart up to despair concerning all the toil of my labors under the sun,

Contemporary English Version
I thought about all my hard work, and I felt depressed.

New American Bible
So my heart turned to despair over all the fruits of my toil under the sun.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring anymore under the sun.

Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring anymore under the sun.

Genesis 43:14 And may my almighty God make him favourable to you: and send back with you your brother, whom he keepeth, and this Benjamin: and as for me I shall be desolate without children.

Job 17:11-15 My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart. . . .

Psalm 39:6,7 Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

2 Corinthians 1:8-10 For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation which came to us in Asia: that we were pressed out of measure above our strength, so that we were weary even of life. . . .

1 Thessalonians 3:3,4 That no man should be moved in these tribulations: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. . . .