1 I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth,
2 I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it? 2:3 I
4 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me
9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in
10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld
11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on
12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for
13 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth
14 The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in
15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it
16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for
17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under
18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun:
19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet
20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the
21 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge,
22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his
24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and
25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
26 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and