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.
10And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.
