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 give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this is vexation of spirit;

And Abigail cometh in unto Nabal, and lo, he hath a banquet in his house, like a banquet of the king, and the heart of Nabal is glad within him, and he is drunk unto excess, and she hath not declared to him anything, less or more, till the light of the morning.

Yet

Wine is a scorner -- strong drink is noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.

Not for kings, O Lemuel, Not for kings, to drink wine, And for princes a desire of strong drink.

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

And to lay

It is good that thou dost lay hold on this, and also, from that withdrawest not thy hand, for whoso is fearing God goeth out with them all.

Wine is a scorner -- strong drink is noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?

'None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

and what fellowship to light with darkness? and what concord to Christ with Belial? or what part to a believer with an unbeliever?

Till

For who knoweth what is good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

The end of the whole matter let us hear: -- 'Fear God, and keep His commands, for this is the whole of man.

All

And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, 'The days of the years of my sojournings are an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'

If a man dieth -- doth he revive? All days of my warfare I wait, till my change come.

For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.