1I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;" and behold, this also was vanity.

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

2I said of laughter, "It is foolishness;" and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"

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

3I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

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

4I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself 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 made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

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

6I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were reared.

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

7I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem;

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

8I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men-musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

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

9So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also 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

10Whatever my eyes desired, I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

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

11Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

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

12I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king's successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

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

13Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

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

14The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness-and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

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

15Then said I in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity.

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

16For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

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

17So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

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

18I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

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

19Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

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

20Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

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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 labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

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

22For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?

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

23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

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

24There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from 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 can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

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

26For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

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