Ecclesiastes 2 — ENGLXXUP

2 I said in my heart, ² I said to laughter, Madness: ³ And I examined whether my heart ⁴ I enlarged my work; ⁵ I made me gardens and orchards, ⁶ I made me pools of water, ⁷ I got servants and maidens, ⁸ Moreover I collected for myself both silver and gold also, ⁹ So I became great, ¹⁰ And whatever mine eyes desired, ¹¹ And I looked on all my works ¹² Then I looked on to see wisdom, ¹³ And I saw that wisdom excels folly, ¹⁴ The wise man’s eyes are in his head; ¹⁵ And I said in my heart, ¹⁶ For there is no remembrance of the wise man ¹⁷ So I hated life; ¹⁸ And I hated the whole of my labor ¹⁹ And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? ²⁰ So I went about to dismiss from my heart ²¹ For there is such a man that his labor ²² For it happens to a man in all his labor, ²³ For all his days ²⁴ A man has nothing really good ²⁵ For who shall eat, or who shall drink, without him? ²⁶ For God has given to the man