So I became great and (A)surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my (B)wisdom remained with me. 10 And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart (C)found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my (D)reward for all my toil. 11 Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was (E)vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing (F)to be gained under the sun.

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I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem(A) before me.(B) In all this my wisdom stayed with me.

10 I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
    I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my labor,
    and this was the reward for all my toil.
11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
    and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;(C)
    nothing was gained under the sun.(D)

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