Ecclesiastes 2:9-11

9 I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me. In all this my wisdom stayed with me.
10 I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor, and this was the reward for all my toil.
11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.

Cross References 4

  • 1. Ecclesiastes 1:12
  • 2. 1 Chronicles 29:25; Ecclesiastes 1:16
  • 3. S Ecclesiastes 1:14
  • 4. S Ecclesiastes 1:3
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