Ecclesiastes 2:9-11

American Standard Version

⁹ So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom ^[a]remained with me. ¹⁰ And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor; and this was my portion from all my labor. ¹¹ Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.