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Basic English Bible
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1
|Eclesiastés 2:1|
I said in my heart, I will give you joy for a test; so take your pleasure--but it was to no purpose.
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2
|Eclesiastés 2:2|
Of laughing I said, It is foolish; and of joy--What use is it?
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3
|Eclesiastés 2:3|
I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.
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4
|Eclesiastés 2:4|
I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.
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5
|Eclesiastés 2:5|
I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.
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6
|Eclesiastés 2:6|
I made pools to give water for the woods with their young trees.
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7
|Eclesiastés 2:7|
I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.
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8
|Eclesiastés 2:8|
I got together silver and gold and the wealth of kings and of countries. I got makers of song, male and female; and the delights of the sons of men--girls of all sorts to be my brides.
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9
|Eclesiastés 2:9|
And I became great; increasing more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom was still with me.
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10
|Eclesiastés 2:10|
And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.
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Sugerencias
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