3I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.
4I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.
5I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.
6I made pools to give water for the woods with their young trees.
7I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.
8I got together silver and gold and the wealth of kings and of countries. I got makers of song, male and female; and the delights of the sons of men--girls of all sorts to be my brides.
9And I became great; increasing more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom was still with me.
