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Originally Posted by bwsmith  Or,
Eccl 2:1-3
2:1 I said to myself, "Come now, I will test you with pleasure. So enjoy yourself." And behold, it too was futility.
2 I said of laughter, "It is madness," and of pleasure, "What does it accomplish?"
3 I explored with my mind how to stimulate my body with wine while my mind was guiding me wisely, and how to take hold of folly, until I could see what good there is for the sons of men to do under heaven the few years of their lives.
NASB |
Just as labor is vanity. Yet I don't think that we would make it very far if we did not go to work everyday. I also seem to remember a command that those who do not work, should not eat.
All of the pleasures of this world are vanity apart from God, yet he does give good gifts for us to enjoy IN him.
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