Ecclesiastes 2:2
“I saide of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?”
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Ecclesiastes 2:2 Context
1I said in mine heart, Goe to now, I wil prooue thee with mirth, therfore enioy pleasure: and behold, this also is vanitie. 2I saide of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it? 3I sought in mine heart to giue my selfe vnto wine, (yet acquainting mine heart with wisedome) and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sonnes of men, which they should doe vnder the heauen all the dayes of their life. 4I made me great workes, I builded mee houses, I planted mee Uineyards.
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I said of laughter, [It is] mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
- King James Version
I said of laughter, "It is madness, and of pleasure, "What does it accomplish?""
- New American Standard Version (1995)