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Ecclesiastes 2:9

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

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KJV King James Version

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

BSB Berean Standard Bible

So I became great and surpassed all in Jerusalem who had preceded me; and my wisdom remained with me.

WEB World English Bible

So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

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In context

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

7 I procured [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 me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings, and of the provinces: I procured me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, [as] musical instruments, and 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 whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my portion of all my labor.

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

12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what [can] the man [do] that cometh after the king? [even] that which hath been already done.

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