Ecclesiastes 2:1-8

¹Therefore I said in mine heart, I shall go, and I shall flow in delights, and I shall use goods; and I saw also that this was vanity.

²And laughing I areckoned error, and I said to joy, What art thou, deceived in vain?

³I thought in mine heart to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I should lead over my soul to wisdom, and that I would eschew folly, till I should see, what were profitable to the sons of men; in which deed the number of days of their life under the sun is needful.

⁴I magnified, either made great, my works, I builded houses to me, and I planted vines;

⁵I made yards or gardens and orchards, and I set those with trees of all kinds;

⁶and I made cisterns of waters, for to water the wood of the trees growing.

⁷I had in possession servants and handmaids; and I had much meine, and droves of great beasts, and great flocks of sheep, over all men that were before me in Jerusalem.

⁸I gathered together to me silver and gold, and the castles of kings and of provinces; I made to me singers and singeresses, and the delights of the sons of men, and cups and vessels in service, to pour out wines;