Works and possessions weighed for their profit
여러 사업과 재물을 얻은 뒤 그 유익을 살핌
Ecclesiastes 2:4–11: The speaker builds houses, vineyards, gardens, and pools and acquires servants, herds, silver, gold, singers, and, in WEB verse 8, musical instruments of all sorts. Looking back on his labor and its joy, he finds no profit under the sun.
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- ECC 2:4–11, engwebp
4I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
5I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
6I made myself pools of water, to water the forest where trees were grown.
7I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.
8I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments of all sorts.
9So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.
10Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.
11Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
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Unresolved interpretation: The final possession named in Ecclesiastes 2:8
- The Korean Revised Version names wives and concubines after male and female singers.
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- ECC 2:4–11, engwebp
4I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
5I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
6I made myself pools of water, to water the forest where trees were grown.
7I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.
8I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments of all sorts.
9So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.
10Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.
11Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
- ECC 2:4–11, engwebp
- WEB reads “musical instruments of all sorts” in that place.
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- ECC 2:4–11, engwebp
4I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
5I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
6I made myself pools of water, to water the forest where trees were grown.
7I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.
8I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments of all sorts.
9So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.
10Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.
11Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
- ECC 2:4–11, engwebp
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Works and possessions weighed for their profit (event-ecc-2-works-possessions-and-their-profit) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/event/ecc-2-works-possessions-and-their-profit Current wording: Ecclesiastes 2:4–11: The speaker builds houses, vineyards, gardens, and pools and acquires servants, herds, silver, gold, singers, and, in WEB verse 8, musical instruments of all sorts. Looking back on his labor and its joy, he finds no profit under the sun. Cited evidence: ECC 2:4–11, engwebp Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.