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I said in my heart, Come now, I
will test you with mirth; therefore consider and behold goodness; this
also is vanity. I said of laughter, It is madness; and of mirth, What does
it do? I sought in my heart to drag my flesh with wine, yet leading my
heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, until I might see where the
good for the sons of men might be, what they should do under the heavens
all the days of their life. I made my works great; I built houses for myself;
I planted vineyards for myself. I made gardens and orchards for myself,
And I planted trees in them, of all fruit. I made pools of water for myself,
to water the forest shooting forth trees. I bought slaves and slave women,
and sons of the house were mine; also livestock, a herd and a great flock
were mine, above all that were before me in Jerusalem. I also gathered
silver and gold to myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces.
I got men singers and women singers for myself, and the delights of the
sons of men, a wife and very many wives. I was great and increased more
than all that were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with
me. And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I did not withhold
my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor, and this
was my part of all my labor. Then I looked on all the works that my hands
had done, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all is
vanity and vexation of spirit; and there is no profit under the sun. And
I turned to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly; for what can the man
do who comes after the king, when they have already done it? Then I saw
that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness. The wise man's
eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness; and I also knew that
one event happens to all of them. Then I said in my heart, As it happens
to the fool, so it happens even to me; and why was I then more wise? And
I said in my heart that this also is vanity. For there is no memory of
the wise more than of the fool forever, since that which is now shall all
be forgotten in the days to come. And how does the wise die above the fool!
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is done under the sun is
sad to me; for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Yes, I hated all my
labor which I had done under the sun; that I must leave it to the man who
shall be after me. And who knows whether he shall be wise or a fool? Yet
he shall have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and acted
wisely under the sun. This is also vanity. And I turned to cause my heart
to despair over all the labor which I did under the sun. When there is
a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and with success; yet
to a man who has not labored in it, he shall leave it for his share. This
also is vanity and a great evil. For what has man from all his labor, and
from the troubling of his heart, in which he has labored under the sun?
For all his days are sorrows, and his labor sadness; yea, his heart does
not take rest in the night. This is also vanity. Is it not good that he
should eat and drink and make his soul see good in his labor? This I also
saw, that it was from the hand of God. For who can eat, or who can enjoy,
apart from me? For God gives wisdom, and knowledge, and joy to a man who
is good in His sight. But to the sinner He gives labor, to gather and to
heap up, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity
and vexation of spirit.
(this ain't the End...! ...yet..)
Job 37
Job 35 & 36
Job 34
Job 33
Joshua 2
at the time kings go forth
prophet Jonah
end of the gospel of John
ezekiel 47
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