VIN(i)
1 I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with rejoicing. Consider goodness." This also is vanity.
2 Of laughing I said, It is foolish; and of joy--What use is it?
3 I also explored the effects of indulging my flesh with wine. My mind guiding me with wisdom, I investigated folly so that I might discover what is good under heaven for humans to do during the days of their lives.
4 I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards,
5 I made for myself gardens and parks, and I planted all sorts of fruit trees in them.
6 I made water pools from which to water the young trees.
7 I acquired male and female servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.
8 I also gathered silver and gold to myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got men singers and women singers for myself, and the delights of the sons of men, a wife and very many wives.
9 And I became great and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom stayed with me.
10 I neither withheld anything from my eyes that they desired, nor did I deprive any pleasure from my heart. My heart rejoiced in all my toil, for this was my reward from all my toil.
11 Yet when I faced all my deeds that my hands had done, And the toil that I had toiled in doing them, Behold, the whole was vanity and a grazing on wind, And there was nothing of advantage under the sun."