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Douay-Rheims 1899 - Ecclesiastes - Ecclesiastes 2

Ecclesiastes 2:10-21

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10And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused them not: and I withheld not my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and delighting itself in the things which I had prepared: and esteemed this my portion, to make use of my own labour.
11And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.
12I passed further to behold wisdom, and errors and folly, (What is man, said I, that he can follow the King his maker?)
13And I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as much as light differeth from darkness.
14The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.
15And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity.
16For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool for ever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned.
17And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit.
18Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me,
19Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there any thing so vain?
20Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring any more under the sun.
21For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and knowledge, and carefulness, he leaveth what he hath gotten to an idle man: so this also is vanity, and a great evil.

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