Pleasures, sumptuous buildings, riches and possessions are but vanity. 14 The wise and the fool have both one end touching the bodily death.

I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove [a]thee with joy: therefore take thou pleasure in pleasant things: and behold, this also is vanity.

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

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:1 Solomon maketh this discourse with himself, as though he would try whether there were contentation in ease and pleasures.

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