1I said in mine heart, Goe to nowe, I will proue thee with ioy: therefore take thou pleasure in pleasant things: and beholde, this also is vanitie.

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Luke 12:19, Luke 12:19, Ecclesiastes 8:15, Ecclesiastes 8:15, James 5:1

2I saide of laughter, Thou art mad: and of ioy, What is this that thou doest?

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Proverbs 14:13, Proverbs 14:13, 1 Peter 4:2, 1 Peter 4:4, Ecclesiastes 7:2

3I sought in mine heart to giue my selfe to wine, and to leade mine heart in wisdome, and to take holde of follie, till I might see where is that goodnesse of the children of men, which they enioy vnder the sunne: the whole nomber of the dayes of their life.

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Proverbs 20:1, Proverbs 20:1, Ecclesiastes 1:17, Ecclesiastes 1:17, Ecclesiastes 6:12

4I haue made my great workes: I haue built me houses: I haue planted me vineyards.

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1 Kings 7:1, 1 Kings 7:12, 1 Kings 7:1, 1 Kings 7:12, 1 Kings 15:19

5I haue made me gardens and orchards, and planted in them trees of all fruite.

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Jeremiah 39:4, Luke 17:27, Luke 17:29, Genesis 2:8, Genesis 2:9

6I haue made me cisternes of water, to water therewith the woods that growe with trees.

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Nehemiah 2:14, Nehemiah 2:14, Jeremiah 17:8, Psalms 1:3, Song of Solomon 7:4

7I haue gotten seruants and maides, and had children borne in the house: also I had great possession of beeues and sheepe aboue all that were before me in Ierusalem.

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Genesis 15:3, 1 Kings 9:20, 1 Kings 9:22, 1 Kings 4:23, 2 Chronicles 26:10

8I haue gathered vnto me also siluer and gold, and the chiefe treasures of Kings and prouinces: I haue prouided me men singers and women singers, and the delites of the sonnes of men, as a woman taken captiue, and women taken captiues.

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1 Kings 10:10, 1 Kings 10:10, 2 Samuel 19:35, 1 Kings 9:28, 2 Samuel 19:35

9And I was great, and increased aboue all that were before me in Ierusalem: also my wisedome remained with me.

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1 Chronicles 29:25, 1 Chronicles 29:25, Ecclesiastes 1:16, Ecclesiastes 1:16, 1 Kings 10:23

10And whatsoeuer mine eyes desired, I withheld it not from them: I withdrew not mine heart from any ioy: for mine heart reioyced in al my labour: and this was my portion of all my trauaile.

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Ecclesiastes 3:22, Ecclesiastes 9:9, Ecclesiastes 5:18, Ecclesiastes 3:22, Ecclesiastes 9:9

11Then I looked on all my workes that mine hands had wrought, and on the trauaile that I had laboured to doe: and beholde, all is vanitie and vexation of the spirit: and there is no profite vnder the sunne.

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Ecclesiastes 1:14, Ecclesiastes 1:14, 1 John 2:16, 1 John 2:17, 1 John 2:16

12And I turned to beholde wisedome, and madnes and follie: (for who is the man that will come after the King in things, which men nowe haue done?)

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Ecclesiastes 1:17, Ecclesiastes 1:17, Ecclesiastes 7:25, Ecclesiastes 7:25, Ecclesiastes 1:9

13Then I saw that there is profite in wisdome, more then in follie: as the light is more excellent then darkenes.

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Ephesians 5:8, Ephesians 5:8, Ecclesiastes 11:7, Ecclesiastes 7:11, Ecclesiastes 7:12

14For the wise mans eyes are in his head, but the foole walketh in darknes: yet I know also that the same condition falleth to them all.

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Psalms 49:10, Psalms 49:10, Proverbs 17:24, Proverbs 17:24, Ecclesiastes 9:11

15Then I thought in mine heart, It befalleth vnto me, as it befalleth to ye foole. Why therefore doe I then labour to be more wise? And I sayd in mine heart, that this also is vanitie.

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Ecclesiastes 6:8, Ecclesiastes 6:8, Ecclesiastes 1:14, Ecclesiastes 1:14, 1 Kings 3:12

16For there shalbe no remembrance of the wise, nor of the foole for euer: for that that now is, in the dayes to come shall all be forgotten. And howe dyeth the wise man, as doeth the foole?

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Ecclesiastes 1:11, Ecclesiastes 1:11, Ecclesiastes 9:5, Ecclesiastes 9:5, Psalms 88:12

17Therefore I hated life: for the worke that is wrought vnder the sunne is grieuous vnto me: for all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.

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Ecclesiastes 2:11, Ecclesiastes 2:11, Jonah 4:8, Ecclesiastes 4:2, Jonah 4:8

18I hated also all my labour, wherein I had trauailed vnder the sunne, which I shall leaue to the man that shalbe after me.

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Psalms 49:10, Psalms 39:6, Psalms 49:10, Psalms 39:6, Luke 16:27

19And who knoweth whether he shalbe wise or foolish? yet shall hee haue rule ouer all my labour, wherein I haue trauailed, and wherein I haue shewed my selfe wise vnder the sunne. This is also vanitie.

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James 3:17, Ecclesiastes 3:22, James 3:17, Ecclesiastes 3:22, 1 Kings 14:25

20Therefore I went about to make mine heart abhorre all the labour, wherein I had trauailed vnder the sunne.

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1 Corinthians 15:19, 2 Corinthians 1:8, 2 Corinthians 1:10, Job 17:11, Job 17:15

21For there is a man whose trauaile is in wisdome, and in knowledge and in equitie: yet to a man that hath not trauailed herein, shall he giue his portion: this also is vanitie and a great griefe.

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Ecclesiastes 2:17, Ecclesiastes 2:18, Ecclesiastes 2:17, Ecclesiastes 2:18, 2 Chronicles 33:2

22For what hath man of all his trauaile and griefe of his heart, wherein he hath trauailed vnder the sunne?

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Ecclesiastes 1:3, Psalms 127:2, Ecclesiastes 1:3, Psalms 127:2, Philippians 4:6

23For all his dayes are sorowes, and his trauaile griefe: his heart also taketh not rest in the night: which also is vanitie.

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Job 14:1, Job 14:1, Job 5:7, Job 5:7, Psalms 6:6

24There is no profit to man: but that he eate, and drinke, and delight his soule with the profit of his labour: I saw also this, that it was of the hand of God.

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Ecclesiastes 3:22, Ecclesiastes 3:22, Ecclesiastes 8:15, 1 Timothy 6:17, Ecclesiastes 8:15

25For who could eate, and who could haste to outward things more then I?

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Ecclesiastes 2:1, Ecclesiastes 2:12, Ecclesiastes 2:1, Ecclesiastes 2:12, 1 Kings 4:21

26Surely to a man that is good in his sight, God giueth wisdome, and knowledge, and ioy: but to the sinner he giueth paine, to gather, and to heape to giue to him that is good before God: this is also vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.

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Proverbs 13:22, Proverbs 13:22, Job 27:16, Job 27:17, Job 27:16