Ecclesiastes 2:24-26

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁴ Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God.

²⁵ Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I?

²⁶ God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.