Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Ecclesiastes 2:22-26 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

22. For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he bath been tormented under the sun?

23. All his days axe full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity?

24. 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.

25. Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I?

26. 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.