5. I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.
6. I made for me pools of water, to water from them a forest shooting forth trees.
7. I got men-servants, and maid-servants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance--herd and flock--above all who had been before me in Jerusalem.
8. I gathered for me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces. I prepared for me men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of man-- a wife and wives.
9. And I became great, and increased above every one who had been before me in Jerusalem; also, my wisdom stood with me.
10. And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,