2. I said of laughter, It is mad; and of simchah, What doeth it accomplish?
3. I searched in mine lev to draw my basar on with yayin, my mind guiding me with chochmah; and to lay hold on sichlut (folly), till I might see what was tov for bnei haAdam, which they should do under Shomayim all the few days of their life.
4. I undertook me great works; I built me batim (houses); I planted me kramim (vineyards);
5. I made me ganot (gardens) and parks, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them;
6. I made me reservoirs of mayim, to water therewith the forest of trees tzomeiach (sprouting up);
7. I bought me avadim and shfakhot, and had bnei bayit (avadim born in my bais); also I had great possessions of herds and tzon more than all that were in Yerushalayim before me;