10 (A)All that my eyes desired I did not refuse them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, for my heart was pleased because of all my labor and this was my (B)reward for all my labor. 11 Thus I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had [a]exerted, and behold all was [b](C)vanity and striving after wind and there was (D)no profit under the sun.

Wisdom Excels Folly

12 So I turned to (E)consider wisdom, madness and folly; for what will the man do who will come after the king except (F)what has already been done?

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:11 Lit labored to do
  2. Ecclesiastes 2:11 Or futility, and so throughout the ch