Ecclesiastes 2:4-11
1599 Geneva Bible
4 I have made my great works: I have built me houses: I have planted me vineyards.
5 I have made me gardens and [a]orchards, and planted in them trees of all fruit.
6 I have made me cisterns of water, to water therewith the woods that grow with trees.
7 I have gotten servants and maids, and had children born in the [b]house: also I had great Possession of beeves and sheep above all that were before me in Jerusalem.
8 I have gathered unto me also silver and gold, and the chief treasures of Kings and provinces: I have provided me men singers, and women singers, and the [c]delights of the sons of men, as a woman [d]taken captive, and women taken captives.
9 And I was great, and increased above all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom [e]remained with me.
10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired, I withheld it not from them: I withdrew not mine heart from any joy: for mine heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my [f]portion of all my travail.
11 Then I looked on all my works that mine hands had wrought, and on the travail that I had labored to do: and behold, all is vanity and vexation of the spirit: and there is no profit under the Sun.
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- Ecclesiastes 2:5 Hebrew, paradises.
- Ecclesiastes 2:7 Meaning, of the servants or slaves, which he had bought: so the children born in their servitude, were the masters.
- Ecclesiastes 2:8 That is, whatsoever men take pleasure in.
- Ecclesiastes 2:8 Which were the most beautiful of them that were taken in war, as Judg. 5:30. Some understand by these words, no women, but instruments of music.
- Ecclesiastes 2:9 For all this God did not take his gift of wisdom from me.
- Ecclesiastes 2:10 This was the fruit of all my labor, a certain pleasure mixed with care, which he calleth vanity in the next verse.
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