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[1] I said in my heart,

Come now, I will prove thee with mirth, and behold thou good:

And, behold, this is also vanity.

[2] I said to laughter, Madness:

And to mirth, Why doest thou this?

[3] And I examined whether my heart

Would excite my flesh as with wine

(Though my heart guided me in wisdom),

And I desired to lay hold of mirth,

Until I should see of what kind is the good to the sons of men,

Which they should do under the sun

All the days of their life.

[4] I enlarged my work;

I built me houses;

I planted me vineyards.

[5] I made me gardens and orchards,

And planted in them every kind of fruit tree.

[6] I made me pools of water,

To water from them the timber-bearing wood.

[7] I got servants and maidens,

And servants were born to me in the house:

Also I had abundant possession of flocks and herds,

Beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem.

[8] Moreover I collected for myself both silver and gold also,

And the peculiar treasures of kings and provinces:

I procured me singing men and singing women,

And delights of the sons of men,

A butler and female cupbearers.

[9] So I became great,

And advanced beyond all

That were before me in Jerusalem:

Also my wisdom was established to me.

[10] And whatever mine eyes desired,

I withheld not from them,

I withheld not my heart

From all my mirth:

For my heart rejoiced in all my labor;

And this was my portion

Of all my labor.

[11] And I looked on all my works

Which my hands had wrought,

And on my labor which I labored to perform:

And, behold, all was vanity and waywardness of spirit,

And there is no advantage under the sun.

[12] Then I looked on to see wisdom,

And madness, and folly:

For who is the man who will follow after counsel,

In all things wherein he employs it?

[13] And I saw that wisdom excels folly,

As much as light excels darkness.

[14] The wise man’s eyes are in his head;

But the fool walks in darkness:

And I perceived, even I,

That one event shall happen to them all.

[15] And I said in my heart,

As the event of the fool is,

So shall it be to me, even to me;

And to what purpose have I gained wisdom?

I said moreover in my heart,

This is also vanity,

Because the fool speaks of his abundance.

[16] For there is no remembrance of the wise man

With the fool forever;

Forasmuch as now in the coming days

All things are forgotten:

And how shall the wise man die with the fool?

[17] So I hated life;

Because the work that was wrought under the sun

Was evil before me:

For all is vanity and waywardness of spirit.

[18] And I hated the whole of my labor

Which I took under the sun;

Because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

[19] And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool?

And whether he will have power over all my labor

In which I labored, and wherein I grew wise under the sun?

This is also vanity.

[20] So I went about to dismiss from my heart

All my labor wherein I had labored under the sun.

[21] For there is such a man that his labor

Is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in fortitude;

Yet this man shall give his portion

To one who has not labored therein.

This is also vanity and great evil.

[22] For it happens to a man in all his labor,

And in the purpose of his heart

Wherein he labors under the sun.

[23] For all his days

Are days of sorrows, and vexation of spirit is his;

In the night also his heart rests not.

This is also vanity.

[24] A man has nothing really good

To eat, and to drink, and to show his soul

As good in his trouble.

This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

[25] For who shall eat, or who shall drink, without him?

[26] For God has given to the man

Who is good in his sight,

Wisdom, and knowledge, and joy:

But he has given to the sinner trouble,

To add and to heap up,

That he may give to him that is good before God;

For this is also vanity and waywardness of spirit.

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