Ecclesiastes 2:2

Brenton⁽ⁱ⁾ ² I said to laughter, Madness: and to mirth, Why doest thou this:

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I said.Solomon is not speaking here of sober enjoyment of the things of the world, but of intemperate pleasure, whose two attendants, laughter and mirth, are introduced by a beautiful prosopopoeia, as two persons, whom he treats with the utmost contempt.
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Ecclesiastes 7:2-6; Proverbs 14:13; Isaiah 22:12; Isaiah 22:13; Amos 6:3-6; 1 Peter 4:2-4