⁶ also Baalath and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities and the cities of the cavalry, and all that Solomon ^(A)desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

The End of the Wise and the Fool

¹⁷ Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing 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)I must leave it to the man who will come after me. ¹⁹ And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. ²⁰ Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun. ²¹ For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet he must leave his ^[b]heritage to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. ^22 (J)For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun? ²³ For all his days are ^(K)sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

^24 (L)Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God. ²⁵ For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, ^[c]more than I? ²⁶ For God gives ^(M)wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that ^(N)he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

⁴ I made my works great, I built myself ^(A)houses, and planted myself vineyards.

¹² So Jehoshaphat became increasingly powerful, and he built fortresses and storage cities in Judah.

^4 (A)He also built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities which he built in ^(B)Hamath.

^14 (A)And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; he had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.

^26 (A)And Solomon ^(B)gathered chariots and horsemen; he had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he ^[a]stationed in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.

^18 (A)Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land of Judah, ¹⁹ all the storage cities that Solomon had, cities for ^(B)his chariots and cities for his ^(C)cavalry, and whatever Solomon ^(D)desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

² He also built the ^(A)House of the Forest of Lebanon; its length was ^[a]one hundred cubits, its width ^[b]fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, with four rows of cedar pillars, and cedar beams on the pillars.