Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Ecclesiastes 2:1-5 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

1. I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity.

2. Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived?

3. 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.

4. I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards,

5. I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all kinds,