2:11a Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished

Then I thought about everything I had done
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But when I turned to look at all that I had accomplished (God’s Word)

2:11b and what I had toiled to achieve,

and all that I had worked so hard to accomplish.
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and all the hard work I had put into it, (God’s Word)

2:11c I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind;

I realized that it was all pointless. It was just like chasing the wind.
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I saw that it was all useless. It was like trying to catch the wind. (God’s Word)
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I realized that ⌊my work⌋ had no benefit. ⌊I was⌋ just trying to control where the wind blows.

2:11d there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

I gained nothing ⌊from all that I accomplished⌋ in this world.
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None of the things that I had done had any value. (EASY2015)

2:11a-d (combined)

Then I thought about everything I had done, including the hard work, and it was simply chasing the wind. Nothing on earth is worth the trouble. (Contemporary English Version)
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But then I looked over everything my hands had done. I saw what I had worked so hard to get. And nothing had any meaning. It was like chasing the wind. Nothing was gained on this earth. (New International Reader’s Version)

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