Ecclesiastes 2:9
King James VersionSource notes
“So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.”
Context
6I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
7I got servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
8I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
9So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all vanity and vexation of spirit, and no profit under the sun.
12And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what the man that cometh after the king? that which hath been already done.