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Ecclesiastes 2:1-3 Common English Bible (CEB)

1. I said to myself, Come, I will make you experience pleasure; enjoy what is good! But this too was pointless!

2. Merriment, I thought, is madness; pleasure, of no use at all.

3. I tried cheering myself with wine and by embracing folly—with wisdom still guiding me—until I might see what is really worth doing in the few days that human beings have under heaven.

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