Ecclesiastes 2:11

9 ^aSo I became great and¹ excelled ^bmore than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.

10 Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them.
I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure,
For my heart rejoiced in all my labor;
And ^athis was my reward from all my labor.

11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done
And on the labor in which I had toiled;
And indeed all was ^avanity and grasping for the wind.
There was no profit under the sun.

The End of the Wise and the Fool

12 Then I turned myself to consider wisdom ^aand madness and folly;
For what can the man do who succeeds the king?—
Only what he has already ^bdone.

13 Then I saw that wisdom ^aexcels folly
As light excels darkness.

14 ^aThe wise man’s eyes are in his head,
But the fool walks in darkness.
Yet I myself perceived
That ^bthe same event happens to them all.

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Interlinear Bible for Ecclesiastes 2:11:

Then I
'aniy (#589) looked
panah (#6437) on all
kol (#3605) the works
ma`aseh (#4639) that my hands had wrought,
shel (#7945) and on the labor
`amal (#5999) that I had labored
shel (#7945) to do:
`asah (#6213) and, behold,
hinneh (#2009) all
kol (#3605) was vanity
hebel (#1892) and vexation
r`uwth (#7469) of spirit,
ruwach (#7307) and there was no
'ayin (#369) profit
yithrown (#3504) under
tachath (#8478) the sun.
shemesh (#8121)

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