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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF ECC 2:1 Lecture 2: On the Pursuit of Happiness
I consequently said to my heart, "Come, now, I will try you with pleasure, and seek happiness."—But I discovered that, also, was vanity.
RF ECC 2:2 I said of laughter, it is mad;—and of mirth,—what does it accomplish?
RF ECC 2:3 I intentionally tried to embolden my body by wine,—with my intellect scientifically guiding me,—and to seize upon folly until I could discover what was best for the children of Adam to do under the sun, for the number of the days they lived?
RF ECC 2:4 I extended my operations,—I built myself houses; I planted myself vineyards;
RF ECC 2:5 I made gardens and parks; and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.
RF ECC 2:6 I made myself pools and brooks, to water from them a forest of shadowy trees.
RF ECC 2:7 I purchased men and women servants, and they had children in my house. I also had herds of cattle and great flocks,—more than all who were before me in Jerusalem,—
RF ECC 2:8 I accumulated for myself silver and gold, and royal treasures from my provinces. I had men and women singers trained for myself, with men and women waiters,—the luxuries of the sons of Adam.
RF ECC 2:9 Thus I enlarged and increased myself more than all that were before me in Jerusalem.—My scientific idea, however, remained with me.—
RF ECC 2:10 But anything that my eyes demanded I withheld not from them; nor did I restrain my heart from any pleasure; for my heart rejoiced in all my endeavors;—and that was my reward for all my efforts.
RF ECC 2:11 But when I reflected on all the work that my hands had done, and all the things I had striven to accomplish,—then I saw they were vanity of vanity, and vexation of spirit! and they had no result under the sun!
RF ECC 2:12 Then I reflected, and examined my Science, and Madness, and Folly!—And what kind of man would succeed the King? With what he might be able to do?—
RF ECC 2:13 Then I saw that there is a result to Science, more than to Ignorance, as there is a result to Light, more than to Darkness,—
RF ECC 2:14 For the eyes of the Instructed are in his head;—the Ignorant goes in Darkness;—but yet I perceived myself also, that one event happens to all of them.
RF ECC 2:15 So I said to my heart, "As it happens to the Ignorant, so it will also happen to me!—Then why am I more instructed than the rest?—So I said in my mind that also is useless!
RF ECC 2:16 for there is no more remembrance of the Instructed than of the Ignorant in the grave for ever! In the times to come, all will be forgotten! For does not the Instructed die like the Ignorant?"
RF ECC 2:17 Therefore I hated life! since all the work I had done under the sun was a grief to me! For it was utterly useless, and a vexation of spirit.
RF ECC 2:18 I also hated all my works,—that I had striven for under the sun, for I must leave them to the man after me;
RF ECC 2:19 and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all the things for which I have laboured, and the result of my science under the sun!—That also is vanity!
RF ECC 2:20 So I abandoned my mind to despair over all the objects I had attempted under the sun.
RF ECC 2:21 For a man may work with science, and knowledge, and skill,—but must leave the result to a man who has not earned it! That, also, is vanity, and a great grief!—
RF ECC 2:22 For what continues to a man from all his endeavors, and from all the efforts of his mind, that he has striven for, under the sun?—
RF ECC 2:23 Where all his days are griefs, and his efforts sorrows, and his mind does not rest at night!—This also is vanity!
RF ECC 2:24 There is no benefit to a man to eat and drink and let his mind expect pleasure from his labour.—Yet I myself saw that this comes from the hand of God Himself.—
RF ECC 2:25 For who could eat, and who excite himself more than I?—
RF ECC 2:26 For to the man who pleases Him, He gives science, and knowledge and pleasure; but to the offender He gives the trouble to gather and accumulate, to give the product to the pleasing before God.—This, however, is vanity, and vexation of spirit!




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AKJV ROM 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?



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