web Ecclesiastes:2:1-11
web@Ecclesiastes:2:1 @ I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure"; and behold, this also was vanity.
web@Ecclesiastes:2:2 @ I said of laughter, "It is foolishness"; and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"
web@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 of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.
web@Ecclesiastes:2:4 @ I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
web@Ecclesiastes:2:5 @ I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
web@Ecclesiastes:2:6 @ I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were reared.
web@Ecclesiastes:2:7 @ I bought male servants and female 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;
web@Ecclesiastes:2:8 @ I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men--musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
web@Ecclesiastes:2:9 @ So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.
web@Ecclesiastes:2:10 @ Whatever my eyes desired, I didn't keep from them. I didn't withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.
web@Ecclesiastes:2:11 @ Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
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