This also is vanity and a chasing after wind. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God Ģ5for apart from him * who can eat or who can have enjoyment?Ģ6For to the one who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity.Ģ4 There is nothing better for mortals than to eat and drink, and find enjoyment in their toil. This also is vanity and a great evil.Ģ2What do mortals get from all the toil and strain with which they toil under the sun?Ģ3For all their days are full of pain, and their work is a vexation even at night their minds do not rest. This also is vanity.Ģ0So I turned and gave my heart up to despair concerning all the toil of my labours under the sun,Ģ1because sometimes one who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave all to be enjoyed by another who did not toil for it. *ġ8 I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to those who come after meġ9and who knows whether they will be wise or foolish? Yet they will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. ![]() How can the wise die just like fools?ġ7So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me for all is vanity and a chasing after wind. Yet I perceived that the same fate befalls all of them.ġ5Then I said to myself, What happens to the fool will happen to me also why then have I been so very wise? And I said to myself that this also is vanity.ġ6For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Wisdom and Joy Given to One Who Pleases Godġ2 So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly for what can the one do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.ġ3Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness. ![]() *ĩ So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem also my wisdom remained with me.ġ0Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil.ġ1Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and again, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, * and there was nothing to be gained under the sun. ![]() *Īnd those who increase knowledge increase sorrow.ĢI said to myself, ∜ome now, I will make a test of pleasure enjoy yourself. But again, this also was vanity.ĢI said of laughter, It is mad, and of pleasure, What use is it?ģI searched with my mind how to cheer my body with winemy mind still guiding me with wisdomand how to lay hold on folly, until I might see what was good for mortals to do under heaven during the few days of their life.ĤI made great works I built houses and planted vineyards for myself ĥI made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.ĦI made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees.ħI bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem.ĨI also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and of the provinces I got singers, both men and women, and delights of the flesh, and many concubines. I perceived that this also is but a chasing after wind. *ġ5 What is crooked cannot be made straight,ġ6 I said to myself, I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me and my mind has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.ġ7And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. ![]() 1The words of the Teacher, * the son of David, king in Jerusalem.Ģ Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, *Ĥ A generation goes, and a generation comes,Īnd what has been done is what will be done ġ1 The people of long ago are not remembered,ġ2 I, the Teacher, * when king over Israel in Jerusalem,ġ3applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven it is an unhappy business that God has given to human beings to be busy with.ġ4I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun and see, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
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