2. Of laughter I said, `Foolish!' and of mirth, `What [is] this it is doing?'
3. I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where [is] this--the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.
4. I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.
5. I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.
6. I made for me pools of water, to water from them a forest shooting forth trees.
7. I got men-servants, and maid-servants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance--herd and flock--above all who had been before me in Jerusalem.