King James Version with Apocrypha
"So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me."
— Ecclesiastes 2:9, King James Version with Apocrypha
“So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.”
“So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. ”
“So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.”
“So I was far wealthier than all my predecessors in Jerusalem, yet I maintained my objectivity:”
“And I surpassed in riches all that were before me in Jerusalem: my wisdom also remained with me.”
“And I became great; increasing more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom was still with me.”
I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
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:
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.
So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
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.
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.
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.