'Pleasure' in the Bible
I told myself, "I will test you with pleasure, so enjoy yourself." But this was pointless.
"Senseless," said I concerning laughter and pleasure, "How practical is this?"
I have concluded that the only worthwhile thing for them is to take pleasure in doing good in life;
Consider someone who is alone, having neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his work, and he is never satisfied with wealth. "So for whom do I work," he asks, "and deprive myself of pleasure?" This, too, is pointless and a terrible tragedy.
For the wise person thinks carefully when in mourning, but fools focus their thoughts on pleasure.
So remember your Creator during your youth! Otherwise, troublesome days will come and years will creep up on you when you'll say, "I find no pleasure in them,"
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- Comfort (145 instances)
- Complacency (3 instances)
- Delight (265 instances)
- Desire (651 instances)
- Determination (8 instances)
- Dissipation (4 instances)
- Ease (66 instances)
- Enjoyment (21 instances)
- Fruition (1 instance)
- Gratification (5 instances)
- Intention (33 instances)
- Joy (461 instances)
- Luxuriousness (1 instance)
- Luxury (15 instances)
- Mind (762 instances)
- Pleasure (367 instances)
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