Ecclesiastes:2:1-11
noyes@Ecclesiastes:2:1 @ I said in my heart, "Come, now, I will try thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure!" But, lo! this also was vanity.
noyes@Ecclesiastes:2:2 @ I said of laughter, "It is mad;" and of mirth, "What availeth it?"
noyes@Ecclesiastes:2:3 @ I thought in my heart to strengthen my body with wine, and, while my heart cleaved to wisdom, to lay hold on folly, till I should see what was good for the sons of men, which they should do under heaven all the days of their life.
noyes@Ecclesiastes:2:4 @ I made me great works. I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards.
noyes@Ecclesiastes:2:5 @ I made me gardens and parks, and planted in them fruittrees of every kind.
noyes@Ecclesiastes:2:6 @ I made me pools of water, with which to water the grove shooting up trees.
noyes@Ecclesiastes:2:7 @ I got me menservants and maidservants, and had servants born in my house. I had also great possessions of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.
noyes@Ecclesiastes:2:8 @ I heaped me up also silver and gold, and the wealth of kings and of provinces. I got me mensingers and womensingers, and the delight of the sons of men, a chosen woman and chosen women.
noyes@Ecclesiastes:2:9 @ So I became greater than all that were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.
noyes@Ecclesiastes:2:10 @ And whatever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy. For my heart rejoiced by means of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.
noyes@Ecclesiastes:2:11 @ Then I looked upon all the works which my hands had wrought, and upon all the labor which I had toiled in performing; and, behold, it was all vanity, and striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
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