Ecclesiastes:2:1-11




ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:1 @I said in my heart, 'Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it [is] vanity.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:2 @Of laughter I said, 'Foolish!' and of mirth, 'What [is] this it is doing?'

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:3 @I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where [is] this -- the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:4 @I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:5 @I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:6 @I made for me pools of water, to water from them a forest shooting forth trees.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:7 @I got men-servants, and maid-servants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance -- herd and flock -- above all who had been before me in Jerusalem.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:8 @I gathered for me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces. I prepared for me men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of man -- a wife and wives.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:9 @And I became great, and increased above every one who had been before me in Jerusalem; also, my wisdom stood with me.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:10 @And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:11 @and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole [is] vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!


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