Read these six verses together to understand the writer's meaning, and compare (Ecclesiastes 2:1–12).

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Go your way. You righteous man, as Jarchi paraphrases it; and indeed epicures and voluptuous persons have no need of the …

The state of the most despicable living man is preferable to that of the most noble who have died impenitent. Solomon exhorts the wise and pious to…