3I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
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Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)Solomon here, in pursuit of the summum bonum — the felicity of man, adjourns out of his study, his library, his elaboratory, his council-chamber, where he had in vain sought for it, into the park and the playhouse, his garden and his summer-house; he exchanges the company of the philosophers and grave senators for that of the wits and gallants, and the beaux-esprits, of his court, to try if he cou…
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