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Then I became (A)great and increased more than all who preceded me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also stood by me. 10 (B)All that my eyes asked for I did not refuse them. I did not withhold my heart from any gladness, for my heart was glad because of all my labor, and this was my (C)reward for all my labor. 11 Thus I turned to all my works which my hands had done and the labor which I had labored to do, and behold, all was [a](D)vanity and striving after wind, and there was (E)no advantage under the sun.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 2:11 Or futility, so in ch

I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem(A) before me.(B) 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;(C)
    nothing was gained under the sun.(D)

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