Ecclesiastes 2:1-3
1599 Geneva Bible
2 Pleasures, sumptuous buildings, riches and possessions are but vanity. 14 The wise and the fool have both one end touching the bodily death.
1 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.
2 I said of laughter, Thou art mad: and of joy, What is this that thou doest?
3 I sought in mine heart [b]to give myself to wine, and to lead mine heart in [c]wisdom, and to take hold of folly, till I might see where is that goodness of the children of men, which they [d]enjoy under the Sun, the whole number of the days of their life.
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- Ecclesiastes 2:1 Solomon maketh this discourse with himself, as though he would try whether there were contentation in ease and pleasures.
- Ecclesiastes 2:3 Hebrew, draw my flesh to wine.
- 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.
- Ecclesiastes 2:3 Hebrew, do.
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