┼├├ 2:1 ╔ SAID IN MINE HEART, ╟O TO NOW, ╔ WILL PROVE THEE WITH MIRTH, THEREFORE ENJOY PLEASURE: AND, BEHOLD, THIS ALSO IS VANITY.
┼├├ 2:2 ╔ SAID OF LAUGHTER, ╔T IS MAD: AND OF MIRTH, ╫HAT DOETH IT?
┼├├ 2:3 ╔ SOUGHT IN MINE HEART TO GIVE MYSELF UNTO WINE, YET ACQUAINTING MINE HEART WITH WISDOM; AND TO LAY HOLD ON FOLLY, TILL ╔ MIGHT SEE WHAT WAS THAT GOOD FOR THE SONS OF MEN, WHICH THEY SHOULD DO UNDER THE HEAVEN ALL THE DAYS OF THEIR LIFE.
┼├├ 2:4 ╔ MADE ME GREAT WORKS; ╔ BUILDED ME HOUSES; ╔ PLANTED ME VINEYARDS:
┼├├ 2:5 ╔ MADE ME GARDENS AND ORCHARDS, AND ╔ PLANTED TREES IN THEM OF ALL KIND OF FRUITS:
┼├├ 2:6 ╔ MADE ME POOLS OF WATER, TO WATER THEREWITH THE WOOD THAT BRINGETH FORTH TREES:
┼├├ 2:7 ╔ GOT ME SERVANTS AND MAIDENS, AND HAD SERVANTS BORN IN MY HOUSE; ALSO ╔ HAD GREAT POSSESSIONS OF GREAT AND SMALL CATTLE ABOVE ALL THAT WERE IN ╩ERUSALEM BEFORE ME:
┼├├ 2:8 ╔ GATHERED ME ALSO SILVER AND GOLD, AND THE PECULIAR TREASURE OF KINGS AND OF THE PROVINCES: ╔ GAT ME MEN SINGERS AND WOMEN SINGERS, AND THE DELIGHTS OF THE SONS OF MEN, AS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, AND THAT OF ALL SORTS.
┼├├ 2:9 ╙O ╔ WAS GREAT, AND INCREASED MORE THAN ALL THAT WERE BEFORE ME IN ╩ERUSALEM: ALSO MY WISDOM REMAINED WITH ME.
┼├├ 2:10 ┴ND WHATSOEVER MINE EYES DESIRED ╔ KEPT NOT FROM THEM, ╔ WITHHELD NOT MY HEART FROM ANY JOY; FOR MY HEART REJOICED IN ALL MY LABOUR: AND THIS WAS MY PORTION OF ALL MY LABOUR.
┼├├ 2:11 ╘HEN ╔ LOOKED ON ALL THE WORKS THAT MY HANDS HAD WROUGHT, AND ON THE LABOUR THAT ╔ HAD LABOURED TO DO: AND, BEHOLD, ALL WAS VANITY AND VEXATION OF SPIRIT, AND THERE WAS NO PROFIT UNDER THE SUN.
┼├├ 2:12 ┴ND ╔ TURNED MYSELF TO BEHOLD WISDOM, AND MADNESS, AND FOLLY: FOR WHAT CAN THE MAN DO THAT COMETH AFTER THE KING? EVEN THAT WHICH HATH BEEN ALREADY DONE.
┼├├ 2:13 ╘HEN ╔ SAW THAT WISDOM EXCELLETH FOLLY, AS FAR AS LIGHT EXCELLETH DARKNESS.
┼├├ 2:14 ╘HE WISE MAN'S EYES ARE IN HIS HEAD; BUT THE FOOL WALKETH IN DARKNESS: AND ╔ MYSELF PERCEIVED ALSO THAT ONE EVENT HAPPENETH TO THEM ALL.
┼├├ 2:15 ╘HEN SAID ╔ IN MY HEART, ┴S IT HAPPENETH TO THE FOOL, SO IT HAPPENETH EVEN TO ME; AND WHY WAS ╔ THEN MORE WISE? ╘HEN ╔ SAID IN MY HEART, THAT THIS ALSO IS VANITY.
┼├├ 2:16 ╞OR THERE IS NO REMEMBRANCE OF THE WISE MORE THAN OF THE FOOL FOR EVER; SEEING THAT WHICH NOW IS IN THE DAYS TO COME SHALL ALL BE FORGOTTEN. ┴ND HOW DIETH THE WISE MAN? AS THE FOOL.
┼├├ 2:17 ╘HEREFORE ╔ HATED LIFE; BECAUSE THE WORK THAT IS WROUGHT UNDER THE SUN IS GRIEVOUS UNTO ME: FOR ALL IS VANITY AND VEXATION OF SPIRIT.
┼├├ 2:18 ┘EA, ╔ HATED ALL MY LABOUR WHICH ╔ HAD TAKEN UNDER THE SUN: BECAUSE ╔ SHOULD LEAVE IT UNTO THE MAN THAT SHALL BE AFTER ME.
┼├├ 2:19 ┴ND WHO KNOWETH WHETHER HE SHALL BE A WISE MAN OR A FOOL? YET SHALL HE HAVE RULE OVER ALL MY LABOUR WHEREIN ╔ HAVE LABOURED, AND WHEREIN ╔ HAVE SHEWED MYSELF WISE UNDER THE SUN. ╘HIS IS ALSO VANITY.
┼├├ 2:20 ╘HEREFORE ╔ WENT ABOUT TO CAUSE MY HEART TO DESPAIR OF ALL THE LABOUR WHICH ╔ TOOK UNDER THE SUN.
┼├├ 2:21 ╞OR THERE IS A MAN WHOSE LABOUR IS IN WISDOM, AND IN KNOWLEDGE, AND IN EQUITY; YET TO A MAN THAT HATH NOT LABOURED THEREIN SHALL HE LEAVE IT FOR HIS PORTION. ╘HIS ALSO IS VANITY AND A GREAT EVIL.
┼├├ 2:22 ╞OR WHAT HATH MAN OF ALL HIS LABOUR, AND OF THE VEXATION OF HIS HEART, WHEREIN HE HATH LABOURED UNDER THE SUN?
┼├├ 2:23 ╞OR ALL HIS DAYS ARE SORROWS, AND HIS TRAVAIL GRIEF; YEA, HIS HEART TAKETH NOT REST IN THE NIGHT. ╘HIS IS ALSO VANITY.
┼├├ 2:24 ╘HERE IS NOTHING BETTER FOR A MAN, THAN THAT HE SHOULD EAT AND DRINK, AND THAT HE SHOULD MAKE HIS SOUL ENJOY GOOD IN HIS LABOUR. ╘HIS ALSO ╔ SAW, THAT IT WAS FROM THE HAND OF ╟OD.
┼├├ 2:25 ╞OR WHO CAN EAT, OR WHO ELSE CAN HASTEN HEREUNTO, MORE THAN ╔?
┼├├ 2:26 ╞OR ╟OD GIVETH TO A MAN THAT IS GOOD IN HIS SIGHT WISDOM, AND KNOWLEDGE, AND JOY: BUT TO THE SINNER HE GIVETH TRAVAIL, TO GATHER AND TO HEAP UP, THAT HE MAY GIVE TO HIM THAT IS GOOD BEFORE ╟OD. ╘HIS ALSO IS VANITY AND VEXATION OF SPIRIT.
