Ecclesiastes 2:3

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 be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

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?

If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: