Pleasures Are Meaningless

I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure(A) to find out what is good.” But that also proved to be meaningless.

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I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

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The Vanity of Pleasure(A)

I said (B)in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with (C)mirth; [a]therefore enjoy pleasure”; but surely, (D)this also was vanity.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:1 gladness

“And do not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down to eat and drink.(A)

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Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

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Also you shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink.”

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