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description: "\"I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity. I said\" — Read Ecclesiastes 2:1-10 in the King James Version (KJV) with commentary, cross references, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon."
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## Ecclesiastes 2:1-10 in Context (Verses 1–13 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/2/1) I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also *is* vanity.
 
 [2 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/2/2) I said of laughter, *It is* mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
 
 [3 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/2/3) I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what *was* that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.**
 
 [4 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/2/4) I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
 
 [5 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/2/5) I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all *kind of* fruits:
 
 [6 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/2/6) I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
 
 [7 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/2/7) I got *me* servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:*
 
 [8 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/2/8) I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, *as* musical instruments, and that of all sorts.*
 
 [9 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/2/9) So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
 
 [10 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/2/10) And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/2/11) Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all *was* vanity and vexation of spirit, and *there was* no profit under the sun.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/2/12) ¶ And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what *can* the man *do* that cometh after the king? *even* that which hath been already done.*
 
 [13 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/2/13) Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.*
 
[Ecclesiastes 1](/kjv/ecclesiastes/1) [Ecclesiastes 3](/kjv/ecclesiastes/3)

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