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I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.
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Verse 1. Delights. He speaks in the name of libertines, (Saint Gregory Dial. iv. 4.) or after his conversion. Calmet.—The worldling might object that since wisdom affords not content, it is best to try pleasure. But this meets not with the approbation of the wise, as all terrestrial joy is short, and can yield no more than a passing consolation. Worthington.
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