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Ecclesiastes describes the frustration of labor because what a person toils for may be left “to the man that shall be after me,” who did not work for it (Ecclesiastes 2:18–19). This transfer, along with “sorrow” and restless nights, is given as a reason work can feel burdensome (Ecclesiastes 2:22–23).
18I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
19Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have showed myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.