Ecclesiastes:2 Parallel Bible - DRV ASV |
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| Ecclesiastes 2:1 | I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity. | I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also was vanity. |
| Ecclesiastes 2:2 | Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived? | I said of laughter, It is mad; and of mirth, What doeth it? |
| Ecclesiastes 2:3 | I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life. | I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding [me] with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their life. |
| Ecclesiastes 2:4 | I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards, | I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards; |
| Ecclesiastes 2:5 | I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all kinds, | I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit; |
| Ecclesiastes 2:6 | And I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the young trees, | I made me pools of water, to water therefrom the forest where trees were reared; |
| Ecclesiastes 2:7 | I got me menservants, and maidservants, and had a great family: and herds of oxen, and great flocks of sheep, above all that were before me in Jerusalem: | I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that were before me in Jerusalem; |
| Ecclesiastes 2:8 | I heaped together for myself silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and provinces: I made me singing men, and singing women, and the delights of the sons of men, cups and vessels to serve to pour out wine: | I gathered me also silver and gold, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, musical instruments, and that of all sorts. |
| Ecclesiastes 2:9 | And I surpassed in riches all that were before me in Jerusalem: my wisdom also remained with me. | So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. |
| Ecclesiastes 2:10 | And 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. | And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor; and this was my portion from all my labor. |
| Ecclesiastes 2:11 | And 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. | Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun. |
| Ecclesiastes 2:12 | I passed further to behold wisdom, and errors and folly, (What is man, said I, that he can follow the King his maker?) | And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what [can] the man [do] that cometh after the king? [even] that which hath been done long ago. |
| Ecclesiastes 2:13 | And I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as much as light differeth from darkness. | Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. |
| Ecclesiastes 2:14 | The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike. | The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all. |
| Ecclesiastes 2:15 | And 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. | Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then said I in my heart, that this also is vanity. |
| Ecclesiastes 2:16 | For 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. | For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool! |
| Ecclesiastes 2:17 | And 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. | So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind. |
| Ecclesiastes 2:18 | Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me, | And I hated all my labor wherein I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me. |
| Ecclesiastes 2:19 | Whom 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? | And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. |
| Ecclesiastes 2:20 | Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring any more under the sun. | Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun. |
| Ecclesiastes 2:21 | For 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. | For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil. |
| Ecclesiastes 2:22 | For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he bath been tormented under the sun? | For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun? |
| Ecclesiastes 2:23 | All his days axe full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity? | For all his days are [but] sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity. |
| Ecclesiastes 2:24 | Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God. | There is nothing better for a man [than] that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God. |
| Ecclesiastes 2:25 | Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I? | For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I? |
| Ecclesiastes 2:26 | God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind. | For to the man that pleaseth him [God] giveth wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that pleaseth God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. |
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