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 <div class="p">4I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards. 5I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. 6I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees. 7I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me. 8I amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I acquired male and female singers, and a harem#2:8 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain. as well&#8212;the delights of a man&#8217;s heart. 9I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me. In all this my wisdom stayed with me.</div><div class="q1"> 10I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;</div><div class="q2">I refused my heart no pleasure.</div><div class="q1">My heart took delight in all my labor,</div><div class="q2">and this was the reward for all my toil.</div><div class="q1"> 11Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done</div><div class="q2">and what I had toiled to achieve,</div><div class="q1">everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;</div><div class="q2">nothing was gained under the sun.</div><div class="s1">Wisdom and Folly Are Meaningless</div><div class="q1"> 12Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom,</div><div class="q2">and also madness and folly.</div><div class="q1">What more can the king&#8217;s successor do</div><div class="q2">than what has already been done?</div><div class="q1"> 13I saw that wisdom is better than folly,</div><div class="q2">just as light is better than darkness.</div><div class="q1"> 14The wise have eyes in their heads,</div><div class="q2">while the fool walks in the darkness;</div><div class="q1">but I came to realize</div><div class="q2">that the same fate overtakes them both.</div><div class="p"> 15Then I said to myself,</div><div class="q1">&#8220;The fate of the fool will overtake me also.</div><div class="q2">What then do I gain by being wise?&#8221;</div><div class="q1">I said to myself,</div><div class="q2">&#8220;This too is meaningless.&#8221;</div><div class="q1"> 16For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered;</div><div class="q2">the days have already come when both have been forgotten.</div><div class="q1">Like the fool, the wise too must die!</div><div class="s1">Toil Is Meaningless</div><div class="p"> 17So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. 18I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. 19And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless. 20So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun. 21For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune. 22What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun? 23All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.</div><div class="p"> </div>
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 <div class="p">19 &#8220;Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.</div><div class="p"> 22 &#8220;The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, # 6:22 The Greek for healthy here implies generous. your whole body will be full of light. 23But if your eyes are unhealthy,#6:23 The Greek for unhealthy here implies stingy. your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!</div><div class="p"> 24 &#8220;No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.</div><div class="s1">Do Not Worry</div><div class="p"> 25 &#8220;Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life#6:27 Or single cubit to your height?</div><div class="p"> 28 &#8220;And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you&#8212;you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, &#8216;What shall we eat?&#8217; or &#8216;What shall we drink?&#8217; or &#8216;What shall we wear?&#8217; 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.</div>
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