传道书 Ecclesiastes 2 << || >>

	2:1	I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and behold, this also vanity.
	2:2	I said of laughter, mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
	2:3	I sought in my heart, to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
	2:4	I made me great works; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards:
	2:5	I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all fruits:
	2:6	I made me pools of water, to water with them the wood that bringeth forth trees:
	2:7	I procured servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
	2:8	I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings, and of the provinces: I procured me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, musical instruments, and of all sorts.
	2:9	So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
	2:10	And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my portion of all my labor.
	2:11	Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and behold, all vanity and vexation of spirit, and no profit under the sun.
	2:12	And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what the man that cometh after the king? that which hath been already done.
	2:13	Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
	2:14	The wise man's eyes in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
	2:15	Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also vanity.
	2:16	For no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise ? as the fool.
	2:17	Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun grievous to me: for all vanity and vexation of spirit.
	2:18	Yes, I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it to the man that shall be after me.
	2:19	And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have showed myself wise under the sun. This also vanity.
	2:20	Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor which I took under the sun.
	2:21	For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not labored in it, shall he leave it his portion. This also vanity and a great evil.
	2:22	For what hath man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, in which he hath labored under the sun?
	2:23	For all his days sorrows, and his labor grief; yes, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
	2:24	nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it from the hand of God.
	2:25	For who can eat, or who else can hasten more than I?
	2:26	For giveth to a man who good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth toil, to gather, and to amass, that he may give to good before God. This also vanity and vexation of spirit.