Ecclesiastes 2:4-9

⁴I made me great works. I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards.

⁵I made me gardens and parks, and planted in them fruit-trees of every kind.

⁶I made me pools of water, with which to water the grove shooting up trees.

⁷I got me men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house. I had also great possessions of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.

⁸I heaped me up also silver and gold, and the wealth of kings and of provinces. I got me men-singers and women-singers, and the delight of the sons of men, a chosen woman and chosen women.

⁹So I became greater than all that were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.