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I enlarged my works, - I built me houses, I planted me vineyards;

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

I made me pools of water, - to irrigate therefrom the thick-set saplings growing up into trees:

I acquired, men-servants and women-servants, and, the children of the household, were mine, - also possessions, herds and flocks in abundance, were mine, beyond all who had been before me in Jerusalem;

I heaped me up, both silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings, and provinces, - I provided me singing-men and singing-women, and the delights of the sons of men, a wife and wives.

So I became great, and increased, more than any one who had been before me in Jerusalem, - moreover, my wisdom, remained with me;

and, nothing that mine eyes asked, withheld I from them, - I did not keep back my heart from any gladness, for, my heart, obtained gladness out of all my toil, and so, this, was my portion, out of all my toil.

When, I, looked upon all my works, which my hands had made, and on my toil, whereon I had toilsomely wrought, then lo! all, was vanity, and feeding on wind, and there was no profit under the sun.