I said of laughter, Thou art mad: and of joy, What is this that thou doest?

I sought in mine heart [a]to give myself to wine, and to lead mine heart in [b]wisdom, and to take hold of folly, till I might see where is that goodness of the children of men, which they [c]enjoy under the Sun, the whole number of the days of their life.

I have made my great works: I have built me houses: I have planted me vineyards.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:3 Hebrew, draw my flesh to wine.
  2. Ecclesiastes 2:3 Albeit I gave myself to pleasures, yet I thought to keep wisdom and the fear of God in mine heart, and govern mine affairs by the same.
  3. Ecclesiastes 2:3 Hebrew, do.

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