English Bible Presentation Sharing - Ecclesiastes Book, chapter 2, verse All in Ylt Version

Ecclesiastes 2 : 1 (YLT)

I said in my heart, `Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;` and lo, even it *is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2 : 2 (YLT)

Of laughter I said, `Foolish!` and of mirth, `What *is this it is doing?`

Ecclesiastes 2 : 3 (YLT)

I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where *is this -- the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 2 : 4 (YLT)

I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.

Ecclesiastes 2 : 5 (YLT)

I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.

Ecclesiastes 2 : 6 (YLT)

I made for me pools of water, to water from them a forest shooting forth trees.

Ecclesiastes 2 : 7 (YLT)

I got men-servants, and maid-servants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance -- herd and flock -- above all who had been before me in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 2 : 8 (YLT)

I gathered for me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces. I prepared for me men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of man -- a wife and wives.

Ecclesiastes 2 : 9 (YLT)

And I became great, and increased above every one who had been before me in Jerusalem; also, my wisdom stood with me.

Ecclesiastes 2 : 10 (YLT)

And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,

Ecclesiastes 2 : 11 (YLT)

and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole *is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

Ecclesiastes 2 : 12 (YLT)

And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what *is the man who cometh after the king? that which is already -- they have done it!

Ecclesiastes 2 : 13 (YLT)

And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.

Ecclesiastes 2 : 14 (YLT)

The wise! -- his eyes *are in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;

Ecclesiastes 2 : 15 (YLT)

and I said in my heart, `As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?` And I spake in my heart, that also this *is vanity:

Ecclesiastes 2 : 16 (YLT)

That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which *is already, in the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!

Ecclesiastes 2 : 17 (YLT)

And I have hated life, for sad to me *is the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 2 : 18 (YLT)

And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.

Ecclesiastes 2 : 19 (YLT)

And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also *is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2 : 20 (YLT)

And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2 : 21 (YLT)

For there is a man whose labour *is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this is vanity and a great evil.

Ecclesiastes 2 : 22 (YLT)

For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2 : 23 (YLT)

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also *is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2 : 24 (YLT)

There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it *is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2 : 25 (YLT)

For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?

Ecclesiastes 2 : 26 (YLT)

For to a man who *is good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit.