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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.

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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.

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.

Ecclesiastes 2:12
I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly; for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

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Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

Ecclesiastes 2:5
I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

Ecclesiastes 2:6
I made myself pools of water, to water the forest where trees were grown.

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.

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 of all sorts.

Ecclesiastes 2:9
So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

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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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