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Ecclesiastes 2
- 1 I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity.
- 2 Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived?
- 3 I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life.
- 4 I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards,
- 5 I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all kinds,
- 6 And I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the young trees,
- 7 I got me menservants, and maidservants, and had a great family: and herds of oxen, and great flocks of sheep, above all that were before me in Jerusalem:
- 8 I heaped together for myself silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and provinces: I made me singing men, and singing women, and the delights of the sons of men, cups and vessels to serve to pour out wine:
- 9 And I surpassed in riches all that were before me in Jerusalem: my wisdom also remained with me.
- 10 And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused them not: and I withheld not my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and delighting itself in the things which I had prepared: and esteemed this my portion, to make use of my own labour.
- 11 And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.
- 12 I passed further to behold wisdom, and errors and folly, (What is man, said I that he can follow the King his maker?)
- 13 And I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as much as light differeth from darkness.
- 14 The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.
- 15 And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity.
- 16 For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool forever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned.
- 17 And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit.
- 18 Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me,
- 19 Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there anything so vain?
- 20 Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring anymore under the sun.
- 21 For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and knowledge, and carefulness, he leaveth what he hath gotten to an idle man: so this also is vanity, and a great evil.
- 22 For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he hath been tormented under the sun?
- 23 All his days are full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity?
- 24 Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God.
- 25 Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I?
- 26 God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.
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2009-10-24English (en)
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