Ecclesiastes 2:2 ASV

¹  I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also was vanity.

²  I said of laughter, It is mad; and of mirth, What doeth it?

³  I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding `me' with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their life.

⁴  I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;