Verse Lens · Context pointer
Ecclesiastes 2:22 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 22. 22For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
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Role in This Section
This verse repeats the profit question specifically over labor and heart-striving, directing the reader to 2:18-23 and the gift response in 2:24-26.
Read It With
- Ecclesiastes 2:18-23
Read Ecclesiastes 2:22 with 2:18-23. This verse repeats the profit question specifically over labor and heart-striving, directing the reader to 2:18-23 and the gift response in 2:24-26. The full unit establishes this movement: Qoheleth despairs because skilled labor and its accumulated results pass to someone whose wisdom is unknown and who did not perform the work, while anxiety continues through the night.
Why It Needs Context
This line depends on Ecclesiastes 2:18-23: repeats the profit question specifically over labor and heart-striving, directing the reader to 2:18-23 and the gift response in 2:24-26.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Ecclesiastes 2:18-23 — Labor Passes to an Unknown HeirSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact displayed Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Ecclesiastes 2:18-23, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Ecclesiastes
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology used for lexical, grammatical, repeated-word, and translation questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Eccl.xml, 2:18-23
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