🌀WEB · Ecclesiastes 2:1
What does Ecclesiastes 2:1 mean?
"I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure”; and behold, this also was vanity."
— Ecclesiastes 2:1 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure”; and behold, this also was vanity.
I said of laughter, “It is foolishness”; and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”
I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.
I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
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