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Chapter 2

What Good Is It To Be Successful?[a] Then I said to myself, “All right, I will pursue pleasure and the enjoyment of good things.” However, this also proved to be vanity. I regarded laughter as madness and pleasure as vanity.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:1 Here is a complete experience of life. Nothing is lacking to Qoheleth, neither free spontaneity, nor the rapture of joys and pleasures, nor wisdom itself. He enjoys the best of relationships, and his goods superabound.