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• I decided to hand my body over to drinking wine, my mind still guiding me in wisdom; I resolved to embrace folly, to discover the best way for people to spend their days under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 2, 3)

• I worked on a grand scale: built myself palaces, planted vineyards; (Ecclesiastes 2, 4)

• made myself gardens and orchards, planting every kind of fruit tree in them; (Ecclesiastes 2, 5)

• had pools made for watering the young trees of my plantations. (Ecclesiastes 2, 6)

• I bought slaves, male and female, had home-born slaves as well; herds and flocks I had too, more than anyone in Jerusalem before me. (Ecclesiastes 2, 7)

• So I grew great, greater than anyone in Jerusalem before me; nor did my wisdom leave me. (Ecclesiastes 2, 9)

• I denied my eyes nothing that they desired, refused my heart no pleasure, for I found all my hard work a pleasure, such was the return for all my efforts. (Ecclesiastes 2, 10)

• I then reflected on all that my hands had achieved and all the effort I had put into its achieving. What futility it all was, what chasing after the wind! There is nothing to be gained under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 2, 11)

• My reflections then turned to wisdom, stupidity and folly. For instance, what can the successor of a king do? What has been done already. (Ecclesiastes 2, 12)

• More is to be gained from wisdom than from folly, just as one gains more from light than from darkness; this, of course, I see: (Ecclesiastes 2, 13)

• For there is no lasting memory for the wise or the fool, and in the days to come both will be forgotten; the wise, no less than the fool, must die. (Ecclesiastes 2, 16)

• Life I have come to hate, for what is done under the sun disgusts me, since all is futility and chasing after the wind. (Ecclesiastes 2, 17)