Pleasures Are Meaningless

I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure(A) to find out what is good.” But that also proved to be meaningless.

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I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

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The Vanity of Pleasure(A)

I said (B)in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with (C)mirth; [a]therefore enjoy pleasure”; but surely, (D)this also was vanity.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:1 gladness

Like the crackling of thorns(A) under the pot,
    so is the laughter(B) of fools.
    This too is meaningless.

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For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

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(A)For like the [a]crackling of thorns under a pot,
So is the laughter of the fool.
This also is vanity.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:6 Lit. sound