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Chapter 2.

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I said in mine heart, Go to now,
I will prove thee with mirth, Therefore

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enjoy pleasure, And behold, this also is
vanity.

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I said of laughter, It is mad,
and of mirth, What doeth it?

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I sought in mine heart To give myself unto
wine, Yet acquainting mine heart with

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wisdom, And to lay hold on folly,
Till I might see What was that good for

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the sons of men, Which they should do
under the heaven All the days of their

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life.

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I made me great works.

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I builded me houses, I planted me
vineyards, I made me gardens and orchards,

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And I planted trees in them, Of all kind
of fruits.

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I made me pools of water, To water
therewith The wood that bringeth forth

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trees.

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I got me servants and maidens,
And had servants born in my house.

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Also I had great possessions Of great and
small cattle, Above all that were in

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Jerusalem before me.

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I gathered me also silver and gold,
And the peculiar treasure of kings And of

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the provinces.

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I got me men-singers and women-singers,
And the delights of the sons of men,

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As musical instruments, And that of all
sorts.

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So I was great, And increased more than
all that Were before me in Jerusalem.

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Also my wisdom remained with me,
And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept

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not from them.

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I withheld not my heart from any joy,
For my heart rejoiced in all my labour,

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And this was my portion of all my labour.

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Then I looked on all the works that my
hands had wrought, And on the labour that

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I had laboured to do.

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And behold, all was vanity and vexation of
spirit, And there was no profit under the

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sun.

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And I turned myself to behold wisdom And
madness and folly, For what can the man do

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that cometh After the king, even that
which hath been already done?

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Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly,
As far as light excelleth darkness.

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The wise man's eyes are in his head,
But the fool walketh in darkness.

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And I myself perceived also That one event
happeneth to them all.

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Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth
to the fool, So it happeneth even to me.

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And why was I then more wise?

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Then I said in my heart, That this also is
vanity, For there is no remembrance of the

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wise More than of the fool for ever,
Seeing that which now is in the days to

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come Shall all be forgotten.

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And how dieth the wise man?

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As the fool.

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Therefore I hated life, Because the work
that is wrought Under the sun is grievous

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unto me, For all is vanity and vexation of
spirit.

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Yea, I hated all my labour which I had
taken under the sun, Because I should

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leave it unto the man that shall be after
me.

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And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise
man or a fool?

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Yet shall he have rule over all my labour
wherein I have laboured, And wherein I

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have showed myself wise under the sun?

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This is also vanity.

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Therefore I went about to cause my heart
to despair Of all the labour which I took

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under the sun.

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For there is a man whose labour is in
wisdom, And in knowledge, and in equity.

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Yet to a man that hath not laboured
therein Shall he leave it for his portion.

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This also is vanity and a great evil.

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For what hath man of all his labour,
And of the vexation of his heart,

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Wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

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For all his days are sorrows, And his
travail grief.

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Yea, his heart taketh not rest in the
night.

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This is also vanity.

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There is nothing better for a man than
that he should eat and drink, And that he

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should make his soul enjoy good in his
labour.

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

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For who can eat, or who else can hasten
Hereunto more than I?

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For God giveth to a man that is good in
his sight, Wisdom, and knowledge,

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and joy.

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But to the sinner he giveth travail,
To gather and to heap up, That he may give

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to him that is good before God.

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This also is vanity and vexation of
spirit.