# Ecclesiastes · 2

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## Verses

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**Latin**

Dixi ego in corde meo : Vadam,
et affluam deliciis, et fruar bonis ;
et vidi quod hoc quoque esset vanitas.

**English**

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**Latin**

Risum reputavi errorem,
et gaudio dixi : Quid frustra deciperis ?

**English**

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**Latin**

Cogitavi in corde meo abstrahere a vino carnem meam,
ut animam meam transferrem ad sapientiam,
devitaremque stultitiam,
donec viderem quid esset utile filiis hominum,
quo facto opus est sub sole numero dierum vitæ suæ.

**English**

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**Latin**

Magnificavi opera mea,
ædificavi mihi domos,
et plantavi vineas ;

**English**

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**Latin**

feci hortos et pomaria,
et consevi ea cuncti generis arboribus ;

**English**

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**Latin**

et exstruxi mihi piscinas aquarum,
ut irrigarem silvam lignorum germinantium.

**English**

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**Latin**

Possedi servos et ancillas,
multamque familiam habui :
armenta quoque, et magnos ovium greges,
ultra omnes qui fuerunt ante me in Jerusalem ;

**English**

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**Latin**

coacervavi mihi argentum et aurum,
et substantias regum ac provinciarum ;
feci mihi cantores et cantatrices,
et delicias filiorum hominum,
scyphos, et urceos in ministerio ad vina fundenda ;

**English**

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**Latin**

et supergressus sum opibus
omnes qui ante me fuerunt in Jerusalem :
sapientia quoque perseveravit mecum.

**English**

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**Latin**

Et omnia quæ desideraverunt oculi mei
non negavi eis,
nec prohibui cor meum quin omni voluptate frueretur,
et oblectaret se in his quæ præparaveram ;
et hanc ratus sum partem meam si uterer labore meo.

**English**

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**Latin**

Cumque me convertissem ad universa opera quæ fecerant manus meæ,
et ad labores in quibus frustra sudaveram,
vidi in omnibus vanitatem et afflictionem animi,
et nihil permanere sub sole.

**English**

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**Latin**

Transivi ad contemplandam sapientiam,
erroresque, et stultitiam.
(Quid est, inquam, homo,
ut sequi possit regem, factorem suum ?)

**English**

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**Latin**

Et vidi quod tantum præcederet sapientia stultitiam,
quantum differt lux a tenebris.

**English**

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**Latin**

Sapientis oculi in capite ejus ;
stultus in tenebris ambulat :
et didici quod unus utriusque esset interitus.

**English**

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**Latin**

Et dixi in corde meo :
Si unus et stulti et meus occasus erit,
quid mihi prodest quod majorem sapientiæ dedi operam ?
Locutusque cum mente mea,
animadverti quod hoc quoque esset vanitas.

**English**

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**Latin**

Non enim erit memoria sapientis similiter ut stulti in perpetuum,
et futura tempora oblivione cuncta pariter operient :
moritur doctus similiter ut indoctus.

**English**

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**Latin**

Et idcirco tæduit me vitæ meæ,
videntem mala universa esse sub sole,
et cuncta vanitatem et afflictionem spiritus.

**English**

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**Latin**

Rursus detestatus sum omnem industriam meam,
qua sub sole studiosissime laboravi,
habiturus hæredem post me,

**English**

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**Latin**

quem ignoro utrum sapiens an stultus futurus sit,
et dominabitur in laboribus meis,
quibus desudavi et sollicitus fui :
et est quidquam tam vanum ?

**English**

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**Latin**

Unde cessavi,
renuntiavitque cor meum ultra laborare sub sole.

**English**

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**Latin**

Nam cum alius laboret in sapientia,
et doctrina, et sollicitudine,
homini otioso quæsita dimittit ;
et hoc ergo vanitas et magnum malum.

**English**

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**Latin**

Quid enim proderit homini de universo labore suo,
et afflictione spiritus,
qua sub sole cruciatus est ?

**English**

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**Latin**

Cuncti dies ejus doloribus et ærumnis pleni sunt,
nec per noctem mente requiescit.
Et hoc nonne vanitas est ?

**English**

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**Latin**

Nonne melius est comedere et bibere,
et ostendere animæ suæ bona de laboribus suis ?
et hoc de manu Dei est.

**English**

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**Latin**

Quis ita devorabit et deliciis affluet ut ego ?

**English**

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**Latin**

Homini bono in conspectu suo
dedit Deus sapientiam, et scientiam, et lætitiam ;
peccatori autem dedit afflictionem et curam superfluam,
ut addat, et congreget,
et tradat ei qui placuit Deo ;
sed et hoc vanitas est, et cassa sollicitudo mentis.

**English**

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