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- Rename project from 'ESV Bible' to 'The Bible' - Implement version selection dropdown in homepage header - Add support for multiple Bible versions: * ESV (English Standard Version) - from mdbible * NKJV (New King James Version) - from local NKJV/ directory - Update all API endpoints to accept version parameter (?version=esv|?version=nkjv) - Add version-aware favorites system that stores and displays Bible version (e.g., 'Genesis 1:1 (ESV)') - Update database schema to include version column in favorites table - Maintain backward compatibility with existing data - Update Docker configuration and documentation
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# Ecclesiastes 2 (New King James Version)
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The Vanity of Pleasure
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##### Chapter 2
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###### 1 I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure"; but surely, this also _was_ vanity.
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###### 2 I said of laughter--"Madness!"; and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"
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###### 3 I searched in my heart _how_ to gratify my flesh with wine, while guiding 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 heaven all the days of their lives.
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###### 4 I made my works great, I built myself houses, and planted myself vineyards.
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###### 5 I made myself gardens and orchards, and I planted all _kinds_ of fruit trees in them.
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###### 6 I made myself water pools from which to water the growing trees of the grove.
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###### 7 I acquired male and female servants, and had servants born in my house. Yes, I had greater possessions of herds and flocks than all who were in Jerusalem before me.
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###### 8 I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the special treasures of kings and of the provinces. I acquired male and female singers, the delights of the sons of men, _and_ musical instruments of all kinds.
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###### 9 So I became great and excelled more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.
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###### 10 Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them.
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I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure,
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For my heart rejoiced in all my labor;
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And this was my reward from all my labor.
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###### 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done
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And on the labor in which I had toiled;
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And indeed all _was_ vanity and grasping for the wind.
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_There was_ no profit under the sun.The End of the Wise and the Fool
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###### 12 Then I turned myself to consider wisdom and madness and folly;
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For what _can_ the man _do_ who succeeds the king?--
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_Only_ what he has already done.
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###### 13 Then I saw that wisdom excels folly
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As light excels darkness.
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###### 14 The wise man's eyes _are_ in his head,
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But the fool walks in darkness.
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Yet I myself perceived
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That the same event happens to them all.
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###### 15 So I said in my heart,
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"As it happens to the fool,
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It also happens to me,
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And why was I then more wise?"
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Then I said in my heart,
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"This also _is_ vanity."
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###### 16 For _there is_ no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever,
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Since all that now _is_ will be forgotten in the days to come.
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And how does a wise _man_ die?
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As the fool!
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###### 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.
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###### 18 Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.
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###### 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.
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###### 20 Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun.
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###### 21 For there is a man whose labor _is_ with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet he must leave his heritage to a man who has not labored for it. This also _is_ vanity and a great evil.
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###### 22 For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun?
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###### 23 For all his days _are_ sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
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###### 24 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.
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###### 25 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
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###### 26 For _God_ gives 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 he may give to _him who is_ good before God. This also _is_ vanity and grasping for the wind.
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