Text copied!
CopyCompare
Translation for Translators - Ecclesiastes - Ecclesiastes 2

Ecclesiastes 2:5-15

Help us?
Click on verse(s) to share them!
5I told my workers to make gardens and parks. Then I told them to fill the gardens with many kinds of fruit trees.
6I told them to build reservoirs to store water to irrigate the fruit trees.
7I bought male and female slaves, and babies who later became my slaves were born in my palace. I also owned more livestock than any of the previous kings in Jerusalem had owned.
8I also accumulated large amounts of silver and gold that were paid to me from the treasures of kings and rulers of provinces. I hired men and women to sing for me, and I had many ◄concubines/slave wives► who gave me much pleasure EUP.
9So, I became greater than anyone else who had ever lived in Jerusalem, and I was very wise.
10I got everything LIT that I SYN saw and wanted. I did everything LIT that I thought would enable me to be happy. All those things that I SYN enjoyed were like a reward for all my hard work.
11But then I thought about all the hard work that I SYN had done to get all those things, and none of it seems to bring any lasting benefit DOU. It was all like chasing the wind.
12Then I started to think about being wise, and also about being foolish DOU. I said to myself, “I certainly do not think that RHQ the next king will be able to do anything better than I can.”
13And I thought, “Surely it is better to be wise than to be foolish, like light is better than darkness,
14because wise people walk in the daylight and IDM can see where they are going, but foolish people walk in the darkness and cannot see where they are going.” But I also realized that both wise people and foolish people eventually die.
15So I said to myself, “I am very wise, but I will die at the end of my life, like foolish people do. So ◄how has it benefited me to be very wise?/it certainly has not benefited me to be very wise RHQ►. I do not understand why people consider that it is valuable to be wise.

Read Ecclesiastes 2Ecclesiastes 2
Compare Ecclesiastes 2:5-15Ecclesiastes 2:5-15