Ecclesiastes 2:1-3

Common English Bible

2 I said to myself,^[a] Come, I will make you^[b] 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.