2. I said of laughter, It is mad, and of pleasure, What does it accomplish?
3. I searched in my mind how to cheer my body with wine–yet at the same time having my mind hold its course and guide me with [human] wisdom–and how to lay hold of folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.
4. I made great works; I built myself houses, I planted vineyards.
5. I made for myself gardens and orchards and I planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.
6. I made for myself pools of water from which to water the forest and make the trees bud.
7. I bought menservants and maidservants and had servants born in my house. Also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem.