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Ecclesiastes - ch 2 v 1 - 20

  1. I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and behold, this also is vanity.
  2. I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
  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 was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
  4. I made me great works; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards:
  5. I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
  6. I made me pools of water, to water with them the wood that bringeth forth trees:
  7. I procured me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
  8. I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings, and of the provinces: I procured me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and of all sorts.
  9. So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
  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 labor: and this was my portion of all my labor.
  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 vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
  12. And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.
  13. Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
  14. The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
  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 is vanity.
  16. For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
  17. Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous to me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
  18. Yes, I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it to the man that shall be after me.
  19. And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have showed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
  20. Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor which I took under the sun.
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