1 I said in my _____,
“Come now, I will ____
you with _____;
therefore enjoy ________”; but surely, this also was vanity.
2 I said of ________—
“_______!”; and of mirth,
“What does it __________?”
3 I ________ in my heart
how to _______
my _____
with ____,
while _______ my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly,
till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under _______
all the days of their _____.
4 I made my ______ great,
I built myself ______,
and planted myself __________.
5 I made myself _______
and ________,
and I _______
all kinds of _____ trees in them.
6 I made myself water _____
from which to _____
the growing _____
of the _____.
7 I acquired male and female ________,
and had servants ____ in my house.
Yes, I had greater ___________
of _____
and ______ than all who were in Jerusalem before me.
8 I also ________
for myself ______
and ____
and the special _________
of kings and of the __________.
I acquired male and female _______,
the ________ of the sons of men,
and _______ ____________ of all kinds.
9 So I became _____
and ________ more than all
who were before me in _________.
Also my wisdom ________ with me.
10 Whatever my eyes _______
I did not ____ from them.
I did not ________ my heart from any pleasure,
For my heart _________ in all my labor;
And this was my ______
from all my _____.
11 Then I looked on all the works that my _____ had done
And on the labor in which I had toiled; And indeed all was vanity and _________ for the wind.
There was no ______
under the ___.
12 Then I turned myself to ________
wisdom and madness and _____;
For what can the man do who ________
the ____?—
Only what he has already ____.
13 Then I saw that ______ excels folly
As _____ excels darkness.
14 The wise man’s eyes are in his head, But the fool walks in ________.
Yet I myself perceived That the same event _______ to them all.
15. So I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, It also happens to me, And why was I then more _____?”
Then I said in my heart, “This also is _______.”
16 For there is no more _________ of the wise
than of the fool _______,
Since all that now is will be _________
in the ____ to come. And how does the wise man die? As the fool!
17 Therefore I _____
____ because the work that was done
under the sun was ___________ to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind.
18 Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must _____ it
to the man who will come _____ me.
19 And who ______ whether he will be wise or a fool?
Yet he will ____ over all my labor in which I toiled
and in which I have shown myself wise _____ the sun. This also is vanity.
20 Therefore I ______ my heart
and _________ of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun.
21 For there is a ___ whose labor is
with wisdom, _________,
and ______;
yet he must leave his ________ to a man who has not labored for it.
This also is vanity and a great ____.
22 For what has man for all his labor, and for the _________of his heart
with which he has ______ under the sun?
23 For all his days are _________, and his work burdensome;
even in the _____ his heart
takes no ____. This also is vanity.
24 _______ is
______ for a man than that he
should eat and _____,
and that his ____ should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.
25 For who can ___,
or who can have _________, more than I?
26 For ___ gives wisdom
and knowledge and ___ to a man
who is good in His _____;
but to the ______ He gives the work
of gathering and __________, that he may give to him who is good before God.
This also is vanity and grasping for the ____.
Where is my puzzle?