Ecclesiastes 2:4-11

⁴I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.

⁵I made gardens and parks for myself, where I planted all kinds of fruit trees.

⁶I built reservoirs to water my groves of flourishing trees.

⁷I acquired menservants and maidservants, and servants were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me,

⁸and I accumulated for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I gathered to myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men — many concubines.

⁹So I became great and surpassed all in Jerusalem who had preceded me; and my wisdom remained with me.

¹⁰Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.

¹¹Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

— Ecclesiastes 2:4-11

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Cross References for Ecclesiastes 2:4-11

• Ecclesiastes 1:14
• 1 Chronicles 29:25
• 1 John 2:16-17
• Ecclesiastes 1:16
• Ecclesiastes 1:3
• Ecclesiastes 5:18
• Ecclesiastes 3:22
• Ecclesiastes 9:9
• 1 Kings 10:10
• 2 Samuel 19:35

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