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Testing pleasure and great works

¹I said to myself, “Come, let me try you out with pleasure; enjoy what is good.” But this too was a breath. ²I said of laughter, “It is madness,” and of pleasure, “What good does it do?” ³I explored with my mind how to cheer my body with wine, while my mind still guided me with wisdom, and how to take up folly, until I could see what is good for human beings to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives. ⁴I undertook great works. I built houses for myself and planted vineyards for myself. ⁵I made gardens and parks for myself and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. ⁶I made myself pools of water to irrigate a forest of growing trees. ⁷I bought male and female slaves, and I had slaves born in my household. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone who had been before me in Jerusalem. ⁸I amassed silver and gold, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and what people delight in most: many concubines. ⁹So I became great, greater than all who were before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom stayed with me. ¹⁰I did not keep from my eyes anything they desired, and I did not refuse my heart any pleasure. My heart took pleasure in all my hard work, and this was my share for all my hard work. ¹¹Then I looked at all that my hands had done and at the hard work I had spent in doing it, and I found that everything was a breath and chasing the wind. Nothing was gained under the sun. ¹²Then I turned to look at wisdom, and at madness and folly. For what can the one who comes after the king do? Only what has already been done. ¹³And I saw that there is more gain in wisdom than in folly, just as there is more gain in light than in darkness. ¹⁴The wise have eyes in their heads, but the fool walks in the dark. Yet I also came to know that one fate comes to them all. ¹⁵Then I said to myself, “What happens to the fool will happen to me too. So why have I been so wise?” And I said to myself that this too is a breath. ¹⁶For the wise will not be remembered forever, any more than the fool, since in the days to come all will be long forgotten. See how the wise die, just like fools! ¹⁷So I hated life, because what is done under the sun weighed on me; everything is a breath and chasing the wind. ¹⁸I hated all the hard work I had done under the sun, because I must leave what it earned to the one who comes after me. ¹⁹And who knows whether that one will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all that I worked for and gained by wisdom under the sun. This too is a breath. ²⁰So I turned and gave my heart up to despair over all the hard work I had done under the sun. ²¹Someone may work with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then must leave it all as the share of someone who never worked for it. This too is a breath and a great misfortune. ²²What do people get for all their hard work and all the striving of their hearts as they toil under the sun? ²³All their days are pain, and their work is vexation; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is a breath. ²⁴There is nothing better for people than to eat and drink and find enjoyment in their hard work. This too, I saw, comes from the hand of God. ²⁵For who can eat or who can find enjoyment apart from me? ²⁶God gives wisdom, knowledge and joy to the one who pleases him; but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up, only to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is a breath and chasing the wind.