- 2:1 I said in my heart, Go to now, I will prove you with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
- 2:2 I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What does it?
- 2:3 I sought in my heart to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
- 2:4 I made me great works; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards:
- 2:5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
- 2:6 I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that brings forth trees:
- 2:7 I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
- 2:8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I got me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
- 2:9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
- 2:10 And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my portion of all my labor.
- 2:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had worked, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
- 2:12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that comes after the king? even that which has been already done.
- 2:13 Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.
- 2:14 The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happens to them all.
- 2:15 Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
- 2:16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dies the wise man? as the fool.
- 2:17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is worked under the sun is grievous to me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
- 2:18 Yes, I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it to the man that shall be after me.
- 2:19 And who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
- 2:20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor which I took under the sun.
- 2:21 For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that has not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
- 2:22 For what has man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he has labored under the sun?
- 2:23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yes, his heart takes not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
- 2:24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
- 2:25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
- 2:26 For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 2
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Ecclesiastes 1
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- 1:1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
- 1:2 Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
- 1:3 What profit has a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun?
- 1:4 One generation passes away, and another generation comes: but the earth stays for ever.
- 1:5 The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to his place where he arose.
- 1:6 The wind goes toward the south, and turns about to the north; it whirls about continually, and the wind returns again according to his circuits.
- 1:7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; to the place from where the rivers come, thither they return again.
- 1:8 All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
- 1:9 The thing that has been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
- 1:10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it has been already of old time, which was before us.
- 1:11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
- 1:12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
- 1:13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail has God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
- 1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
- 1:15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
- 1:16 I communed with my own heart, saying, See, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yes, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
- 1:17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
- 1:18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.
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