Ecclesiastes 2:1-3

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

2 I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity.

² Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived?

³ I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life.