Ecclesiastes 2:25 Cross References - Matthew

²⁵ For who may eat, drinke, or bring any thing to passe wythout hym? And why?

²¹ And Salomon raygned ouer al kyngdomes from the ryuer thorowout al the land of the Phylistines vnto the borders of Egipt and they brought presentes & serued Salomon all dayes of hys lyfe. ²² And Salomons fode was in one day thyrtye quarters of manchet floure and thre skore quarters of mele: ²³ ten stalled oxen, & twentye out of the pastures & an hundred shepe and gootes, besydes, hertes, buckes and buballes & fat pultrye. ²⁴ For he ruled in all the regyons on the other syde Euphrates, from Thaphsah to Gaza, and also ouer all the kinges on the other syde the sayd Euphrates. And he had peace with all hys seruauntes on euery syde.

¹ Then sayde I thus in my herte: Now go to, I will take myne ease and haue good dayes. But lo, that was vanitie also: ² in so much that I sayd vnto laughter: thou art mad, and to myrthe: what doest thou? ³ So I thought in my hert, to withdrawe my flesh from wyne, to apply my mynde vnto wysdome, & to comprehende folishnes vntill the time that (among all the thinges which are vnder the sunne) I might se what were best for men to do, so long as they lyue vnder heauen. ⁴ I made Gorgious fayre workes. I buylded me houses, & planted vineyardes. ⁵ I made me ortchardes & gardens of pleasure, & planted trees in them of al maner frutes. ⁶ I made poles of water, to water the grene & frutefull trees withall. ⁷ I bought seruauntes and maidens and had a greate housholde, As for catell and shepe, I had more substance of them then all they that were before me in Ierusalem, ⁸ I gathered syluer and gold together, euen a treasure of kynges and landes. I prouyded me syngers and wemen which coulde playe of instrumentes, to make men myrth and pastime. I gat me drinckyng cuppes also and glasses. ⁹ Shortly, I was greater and in more worshippe, then all my predecessours in Ierusalem. For wysdome remained with me ¹⁰ and loke what soeuer myne eyes desyred, I let them haue it: and wherein soeuer my herte delited or had any pleasure, I wyth helde it not from it. Thus my herte reioysed in all that I dyd, and this I toke for the porcion of all my trauayle. ¹¹ But when I consydered all the workes that my handes had wrought, and all the laboures that I had taken therein, lo, all was but but vanytye and vexacion of mind, & nothyng of any value vnder the Sunne. ¹² Then turned I me to consyder wysdome, erroure and folyshnesse (for what is he amonge men, that myght be compared to me the kyng in suche workes?)