³ I ^(A)searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine—my heart still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on ^(B)folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life.

¹⁰ And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart ^(A)found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my ^(B)reward for all my toil. ¹¹ Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was ^(C)vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing ^(D)to be gained under the sun.

The Vanity of Living Wisely

^12 (E)So I turned to consider ^(F)wisdom and madness and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only ^(G)what has already been done.