Ecclesiastes 2:18

labour. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for all that is produced by toil.

taken. toiled.

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¹⁸ Yea, I hated all my labour which I had takend under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

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