Verse 8
Ecclesiastes 2:8
New King James Version
8
I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men,
as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כָּנַ֤סְתִּי לִ/י֙ גַּם כֶּ֣סֶף וְ/זָהָ֔ב וּ/סְגֻלַּ֥ת מְלָכִ֖ים וְ/הַ/מְּדִינ֑וֹת עָשִׂ֨יתִי לִ֜/י שָׁרִ֣ים וְ/שָׁר֗וֹת וְ/תַעֲנוּגֹ֛ת בְּנֵ֥י הָ/אָדָ֖ם שִׁדָּ֥ה וְ/שִׁדּֽוֹת
English Translation
I have gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasures of kings and the provinces; I made for myself singers and singers' groups and the pleasures of the children of man—many and abundantly.
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Chapter 2 Context
1
I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold...
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2
I said of laughter,
It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
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3
I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay...
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4
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
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5
I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all
kind of fruits:
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6
I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
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7
I got
me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of gr...
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8
I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat m...
9
So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remaine...
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10
And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my...
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11
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to d...
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12
And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what
can the man
do that cometh af...
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13
Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
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14
The wise man’s eyes
are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also t...
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15
Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then...
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16
For
there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now
is in...
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17
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all...
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18
Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man t...
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19
And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise
man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour...
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20
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
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21
For there is a man whose labour
is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hat...
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22
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured unde...
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23
For all his days
are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. Th...
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24
There is nothing better for a man,
than that he should eat and drink, and
that he should make his so...
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25
For who can eat, or who else can hasten
hereunto, more than I?
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26
For
God (Elohim) giveth to a man that
is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to th...
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