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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ecclesiastes 2 WBT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ecclesiastes/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ecclesiastes/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">WBT</a> > Ecclesiastes 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ecclesiastes/1.htm" title="Ecclesiastes 1">◄</a> Ecclesiastes 2 <a href="../ecclesiastes/3.htm" title="Ecclesiastes 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Webster Bible Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">The Futility of Pleasures</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and behold, this also is vanity. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it? <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>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 was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven 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; I planted me vineyards: <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I made me pools of water, to water with them the wood that bringeth forth trees: <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I procured me 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: <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>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, as musical instruments, and of all sorts.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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 was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit 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>And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>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 is vanity. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous to me: for all is 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>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man 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 is also vanity. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor which I took under the sun. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>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 for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For what hath man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, in which he hath labored under the sun? <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For all his days are sorrows, and his labor grief; yes, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For who can eat, or who else can hasten to it more than I? <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For God giveth to a man who is 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 him that is good before God. 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