Ecclesiastes 2:3-11 I examined in my heart to draw my flesh with wine, and my heart led in wisdom; and to lay hold upon folly till that I shall see what this good to the sons of man which they will do under the heavens the number of the days of their life.

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ I examined in my heart to draw my flesh with wine, and my heart led in wisdom; and to lay hold upon folly till that I shall see what this good to the sons of man which they will do under the heavens the number of the days of their life. ⁴ I magnified my work; I builded to me houses; I planted to me vineyards: ⁵ I made to me gardens and pleasure grounds, and I planted in them a tree of all fruit ⁶ I made to me pools of waters to water from them the forest, causing trees to spring forth. ⁷ I obtained servants and maids, and sons of the house were to me; also obtaining cattle, and many sheep were to me more than all that were before me in Jerusalem. ⁸ I gathered to me also silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and the provinces: I made to me men singing and women singing, and the delights of the sons of men, a wife and mistresses. ⁹ And I was magnified and increased more than all being before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom stood to me. ¹⁰ And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them, and I withheld not my heart from all gladness; for my heart rejoiced from all my labor: and this was my portion from all my labor. ¹¹ And I looked upon all my works my hands made, and upon the labor I labored to do, and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit, and no profit under the sun.