Ecclesiastes:2:1-11
acv@Ecclesiastes:2:1 @ I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. And, behold, this also was vanity.
acv@Ecclesiastes:2:2 @ I said of laughter, It is mad, and of mirth, What does it do?
acv@Ecclesiastes:2:3 @ I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine (my heart yet guiding [me] with wisdom), and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of th
acv@Ecclesiastes:2:4 @ I made for me great works. I built for me houses. I planted for me vineyards.
acv@Ecclesiastes:2:5 @ I made for me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
acv@Ecclesiastes:2:6 @ I made for me pools of water, to water from there the forest where trees were reared.
acv@Ecclesiastes:2:7 @ I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.
acv@Ecclesiastes:2:8 @ I also gathered for me silver and gold, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got for me men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of men, [and] a wife and wives.
acv@Ecclesiastes:2:9 @ So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.
acv@Ecclesiastes:2:10 @ And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them. I did not withhold my heart from any joy. For my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.
acv@Ecclesiastes:2:11 @ Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do, and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
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