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And I saw that this also was vanity. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived? <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all kinds, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the young trees, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I got me menservants, and maidservants, and had a great family: and herds of oxen, and great flocks of sheep, above all that were before me in Jerusalem: <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I heaped together for myself silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and provinces: I made me singing men, and singing women, and the delights of the sons of men, cups and vessels to serve to pour out wine: </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And I surpassed in riches all that were before me in Jerusalem: my wisdom also remained with me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused them not: and I withheld not my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and delighting itself in the things which I had prepared: and esteemed this my portion, to make use of my own labour. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun. </p> <p class="hdg">The Wise and the Foolish</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I passed further to behold wisdom, and errors and folly, (What is man, said I, that he can follow the King his maker?) <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as much as light differeth from darkness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool for ever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit. </p> <p class="hdg">The Futility of Work</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there any thing so vain? <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring any more under the sun. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and knowledge, and carefulness, he leaveth what he hath gotten to an idle man: so this also is vanity, and a great evil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he bath been tormented under the sun? <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>All his days axe full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity? </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I? <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind. </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Douay-Rheims Bible<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ecclesiastes/1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ecclesiastes 1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ecclesiastes 1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ecclesiastes/3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Ecclesiastes 3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Ecclesiastes 3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/ecclesiastes/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>