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Ecclesiastes 2:1-3
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Ecclesiastes 2:1-3
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
The Futility of Self-Indulgence
2 I said to myself, ‘Come now, I will make a test of pleasure; enjoy yourself.’ But again, this also was vanity. 2 I said of laughter, ‘It is mad’, and of pleasure, ‘What use is it?’ 3 I searched with my mind how to cheer my body with wine—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, until I might see what was good for mortals to do under heaven during the few days of their life.
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