Ecclesiastes 2:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

Sought

Ecclesiastes 1:17

1 Samuel 25:36

Yet

Proverbs 20:1

Proverbs 31:4

Ephesians 5:18

And to lay

2 Corinthians 6:15

Till

Ecclesiastes 6:12

Ecclesiastes 12:13

All

Genesis 47:9

Job 14:14

Psalm 90:9

Bible References

Sought

And I will give my heart to know wisdom, and the knowledge of praise and understanding: I knew this also it is the striving of the spirit

And Abigail will go to Nabal; and behold, to him a drinking in his house as the drinking of a king; and Nabal's heart good with him, and he was intoxicated even greatly; and she announced not to him a word small and great till the light of the morning.

Yet

Wine is mocking, strong drink is noisy: and every one going astray by it will not be wise.

Not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink and for princes the desire of strong drink:

And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit;

And to lay

Good that thou shalt hold fast upon this; also from this thou shalt not lead away thy hand: for he fearing God shall come forth with all of them.

Wine is mocking, strong drink is noisy: and every one going astray by it will not be wise.

To whom wo? to whom want? to whom strife? to whom complaint? to whom wounds gratuitously? to whom dark fleshings of the eyes?

None can serve two lords: for either he will hate one and love the other; or hold firmly to one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

And what conformity to Christ with Belial? and what part to the believing with the unbelieving?

Till

For who shall know what is for man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he will make them as a shadow? for who shall announce to man what shall be after him under the sun?

We will hear the end of all the word: Fear thou God, and watch his commands: for this is all man.

All

And Jacob will say to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning, thirty and a hundred years: little and evil were the days of the years of my life, and they reached not the days of the years of the life of my fathers in their sojournings.

If a man die, shall he live? All the days of my warfare I will wait till the coming of my change.

For all our days turned away in thy wrath: we finished our years as a meditation