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I became very famous. I was greater than anyone who had lived in Jerusalem before me. My wisdom helped me in all this.

10 Anything I saw and wanted, I got for myself.
    I did not miss any pleasure I desired.
I was pleased with everything I did.
    And this pleasure was the reward for all my hard work.
11 But then I looked at what I had done.
    I thought about all the hard work.
Suddenly I realized it was just a waste of time, like chasing the wind!
    There is nothing to gain from anything we do here on earth.

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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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