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.