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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.
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Verse 3. Wine, and to lead a temperate life. Calmet.—Prot. “to give myself unto wine, (yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom) and to lay hold on folly,” and so forth Bible.—I wished to indulge myself in pleasure, yet so as not to lose the reputation of wisdom. Calmet. 5:9. Bible.
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