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rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:1 @ I said in my heart, Come now, I will test thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also vanity.

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:2 @ I said of laughter, mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?

rwbs@Ecclesiastes: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 that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life. (note:)to give…: Hebrews. to draw my flesh with wine(:note)all…: Heb. the number of the days of their life

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:4 @ I made for myself great works; I built houses; I planted vineyards:

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:5 @ I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all fruits:

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:6 @ I made me pools of water, to water with them the wood that bringeth forth trees:

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:7 @ I procured male and female servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks above all that were in Jerusalem before me: (note:)servants born…: Hebrews. sons of my house(:note)

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:8 @ I gathered me also silver and gold, and the special treasure of kings and of the provinces: I procured me male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men, musical instruments, and of all sorts. (note:)musical…: Hebrews. musical instrument and instruments(:note)

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:9 @ So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

rwbs@Ecclesiastes: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 labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:11 @ Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all vanity and vexation of spirit, and no profit under the sun.

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:12 @ And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what the man that cometh after the king? that which hath been already done. (note:)even…: or, in those things which have been already done(:note)

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:13 @ Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. (note:)that…: Hebrews. that there is an excellency in wisdom more than in folly, etc(:note)

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:14 @ The wise man’s eyes in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:15 @ Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also vanity. (note:)happeneth even…: Hebrews. happeneth to me, even to me(:note)

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:16 @ For no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise? as the fool.

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:17 @ Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun grievous to me: for all vanity and vexation of spirit.

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:18 @ Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it to the man that shall be after me. (note:)taken: Hebrews. laboured(:note)

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:19 @ And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour in which I have laboured, and in which I have showed myself wise under the sun. This also vanity.

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:20 @ Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:21 @ For there is a man whose labour in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured in it shall he leave it his portion. This also vanity and a great evil. (note:)leave: Hebrews. give(:note)

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:22 @ For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, in which he hath laboured under the sun?

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:23 @ For all his days sorrows, and his labour grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:24 @ nothing better for a man, that he should eat and drink, and he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it from the hand of God. (note:)should make…: or, delight his senses(:note)

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:25 @ For who can eat, or who else can hasten, more than I?

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:2:26 @ For giveth to a man who good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth toil, to gather and to store up, that he may give to good before God. This also vanity and vexation of spirit. (note:)in his…: Hebrews. before him(:note)

Ecclesiastes 2