Holy Scripture
Ecclesiastes 2:7
A church father on this verse
“What is such a gross example of arrogance in the matters enumerated above—an opulent house, and an abundance of vines, and ripeness in vegetable plots, and collecting waters in pools and channeling them in gardens—as for a human being to think himself the master of his own kind? "I got me slaves and slave girls," he s…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
7I got servants and maidens, And servants were born to me in the house: Also I had abundant possession of flocks and herds, Beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem.
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5I made me gardens and orchards, And planted in them every kind of fruit tree.
6I made me pools of water, To water from them the timber-bearing wood.
— Ecclesiastes 2:7 —
8Moreover I collected for myself both silver and gold also, And the peculiar treasures of kings and provinces: I procured me singing men and singing women, And delights of the sons of men, A butler and female cupbearers.
9So I became great, And advanced beyond all That were before me in Jerusalem: Also my wisdom was established to me.