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  "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2 (Douay-Rheims)",
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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 3,
      "text": "I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 4,
      "text": "I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards,",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 5,
      "text": "I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all kinds,",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "And I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the young trees,",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 7,
      "text": "I got me menservants, and maidservants, and had a great family: and herds of oxen, and great flocks of sheep, above all that were before me in Jerusalem:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "I heaped together for myself silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and provinces: I made me singing men, and singing women, and the delights of the sons of men, cups and vessels to serve to pour out wine:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "And I surpassed in riches all that were before me in Jerusalem: my wisdom also remained with me.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused them not: and I withheld not my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and delighting itself in the things which I had prepared: and esteemed this my portion, to make use of my own labour.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "I passed further to behold wisdom, and errors and folly, (What is man, said I that he can follow the King his maker?)",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "And I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as much as light differeth from darkness.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool forever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
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      "verse": 17,
      "text": "And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me,",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there anything so vain?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring anymore under the sun.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and knowledge, and carefulness, he leaveth what he hath gotten to an idle man: so this also is vanity, and a great evil.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he hath been tormented under the sun?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "All his days are full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 2:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    }
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