1 I said in my heart, 'Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;' and, behold, this also was vanity.
2 I said of laughter, 'It is foolishness;' and of mirth, 'What does it accomplish?'
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 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.
4 I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
5 I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
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