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| Prove  ’ănassəḵā(אֲנַסְּכָ֛ה)h instead of nacah(נָסָה)<Ref name="nacah">{{05254}}</Ref> which can mean prove,test, or even assay or tempt.
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| V3 ''yet acquainting'' [[05090]] "leasing away" my heart with ''my [[wisdom]]'' is baḥāḵəmāh (בַּֽחָכְמָה֙) with the letter [[Beit]] normally chokmah (חָכְמָה)‎ ChetKafMemHey [[02451]]. Not the same as we see in V9 ḥāḵəmāṯî(חָכְמָתִ֖י) ending with TavYod a form that only appears here in verse 9.
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| Pleasure, possessions, riches and wealth were not sufficient.
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| And again we see in V11-V17 and V26  there is the phrase "vexation of spirit" which we saw in Ecclesiastes 1:17 which is from [[07475]] ra‘yōwn (רַעְי֥וֹן) rūaḥ (רֽוּחַ׃), [[07307]] which can be translated ''grasping for the wind''.
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| V13 "that [[wisdom]]((לַֽחָכְמָ֖ה) laḥāḵəmāh)<Ref name="chakam1">{{02451}}</Ref> excelleth (yithrown (יִתְרוֹן‎))<Ref name="yithrown">{{03504}}</Ref> folly, as far as light excelleth darkness." Nothing (yithrown) ''profited'' or was to my advantage.
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| V14 The "wise man's"(הֶֽחָכָם֙) heḥāḵām<Ref name="chakam0">{{02450}}</Ref> eyes are in his ''head''(bərōšōw (בְּרֹאשׁ֔וֹ)) rather than just rosh (רֹאשׁ֔).<Ref name="rosh">{{07218}}</Ref> But the fool walks in darkness.,
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|  While, V11-V17 and V26 speak of a vexation<Ref name="ra1">{{07451}}</Ref>  of the spirit V22 speaks of a vexation of the heart, The heart seems to lead us onto darkness but often the head is unsatisfactory also. 
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| Romans 2:5  "But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of [[wrath]] and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;" Man's heart is treacherous and God must give it sight.<Ref name="Writeheart">{{Writeheart}}</Ref>  This comes to those who [[repent]] and [[seek]] His [[righteousness]].
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| V24 "This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God." The [[tree of knowledge]] and the [[tree of life]] are both by the hand of God. But we should not eat of both. To get back to the [[tree of life]] which is the [[Holy Spirit]] and not merely the "wind" we must learn to [[love]] the light, to know ''the whole [[truth]] and provide for it''.
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| V26 we see ''sinner'' chata (חָטָא)‎<Ref name="chata">{{02398}}</Ref> appearing in the text as wəlaḥōwṭe (וְלַחוֹטֶא֩) only in this one verse. God can turn things to good or to travail. Based on what? That may be the most vexing thing to the proud and haughty spirit dwelling in the heart of man.
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| Summary: The "fool walketh in darkness" which leads to a "vexation of spirit" and asks shall we be "a wise man or a fool?" While just laboring for self is foolish and vain... Shall a "soul enjoy good in his labour" or another "man that hath not laboured therein"? For what and whom do you labor? 
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== The Futility of Pleasure ==

=== The Vanity of Self-Indulgence=== 
1 ¶ I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.<Ref name="hebel">{{01892}}</Ref>

2 I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?

3 I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

4 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:

6 I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:

7 I got me 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:

8 I gathered<Ref>{{03664}}</Ref> 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, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

10 And 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.
hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation<Ref name="ra1">{{07451}}</Ref>  of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

== The Vanity of Living by my wisdom ==


11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun.

== The Wise and the Foolish ==

12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly(סִכְלוּת)<Ref name="cikluwth">{{05531}}</Ref>: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.

13 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly(סִכְלוּת)<Ref name="cikluwth">{{05531}}</Ref>, as far as light excelleth darkness.

14 The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

=== Vexation of fools ===

16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.

17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

== The Futility of Labor and Reward ==

=== The Vanity of Toil ===

18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

21 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

=== Your labor by the hand of God ===

24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?

26 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up<Ref>{{03664}}</Ref>, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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