Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
worldly Amusements and pleasures » The wicked seek for happiness in
I Said in my heart, Go now, I will prove thee with gladness, and look thou upon good: and behold, this also vanity.
I gathered to me also silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and the provinces: I made to me men singing and women singing, and the delights of the sons of men, a wife and mistresses.
Amusements and worldly pleasures » The wicked seek for happiness in
I Said in my heart, Go now, I will prove thee with gladness, and look thou upon good: and behold, this also vanity.
I gathered to me also silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and the provinces: I made to me men singing and women singing, and the delights of the sons of men, a wife and mistresses.
Emptiness » Emptiness or vanity of the worldly life (ps 3911; 629)
Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind,
I Said in my heart, Go now, I will prove thee with gladness, and look thou upon good: and behold, this also vanity.
Surely the sons of man vanity, the sons of man falsehood: to be brought up into the balances, they together of vanity.
With corrections for iniquity thou didst correct man, and thou wilt melt down as a moth his beauty: surely every man is vanity. Silence.
No end to all the people, to all which were before them: also the last ones shall not rejoice in him. For also this is vanity and striving of the spirit
And put away anger from thy heart, and cause evil to pass away from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
Epicureans » Worldly pleasure sought by the epicureans as the chief aim of life
I Said in my heart, Go now, I will prove thee with gladness, and look thou upon good: and behold, this also vanity.
Lying upon beds of ivory, and stretching out upon their couches, and eating the lambs from the flock, and the calves from the midst of the stall.
If according to man I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what the profit to me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
And certain of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers deliberated with him. And certain said, What may this idle, talkative man wish to say? and others, He seems to be a declarer of strange demons: because he announced to them good news, and the rising up.
Not good in man he shall eat and drink and cause his soul to see good in his labor. Also this I saw that it is from the hand of God.
Behold, what I saw: good, which is beautiful to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor that he will labor under the sun the number of the days of his life, which God gave to him; for this his portion.
And I praised joy, because there is no good to man under the sun but to eat and to drink, and to rejoice: for this shall lodge with him in his labor the days of his life which God gave to him under the sun.
Go eat in joy thy bread, and drink thy wine in a good heart; for already God was satisfied with thy works.
And behold, gladness and joy, killing cattle and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.
Epicureans » Doctrines propagated by, familiar to solomon
I Said in my heart, Go now, I will prove thee with gladness, and look thou upon good: and behold, this also vanity. To laughter I said, It is mad: and to gladness, What did this? I examined in my heart to draw my flesh with wine, and my heart led in wisdom; and to lay hold upon folly till that I shall see what this good to the sons of man which they will do under the heavens the number of the days of their life. read more.
I magnified my work; I builded to me houses; I planted to me vineyards: I made to me gardens and pleasure grounds, and I planted in them a tree of all fruit I made to me pools of waters to water from them the forest, causing trees to spring forth. I obtained servants and maids, and sons of the house were to me; also obtaining cattle, and many sheep were to me more than all that were before me in Jerusalem. I gathered to me also silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and the provinces: I made to me men singing and women singing, and the delights of the sons of men, a wife and mistresses. And I was magnified and increased more than all being before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom stood to me. And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them, and I withheld not my heart from all gladness; for my heart rejoiced from all my labor: and this was my portion from all my labor.
I magnified my work; I builded to me houses; I planted to me vineyards: I made to me gardens and pleasure grounds, and I planted in them a tree of all fruit I made to me pools of waters to water from them the forest, causing trees to spring forth. I obtained servants and maids, and sons of the house were to me; also obtaining cattle, and many sheep were to me more than all that were before me in Jerusalem. I gathered to me also silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and the provinces: I made to me men singing and women singing, and the delights of the sons of men, a wife and mistresses. And I was magnified and increased more than all being before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom stood to me. And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them, and I withheld not my heart from all gladness; for my heart rejoiced from all my labor: and this was my portion from all my labor.
Happiness » Of the wicked » Is vain
I Said in my heart, Go now, I will prove thee with gladness, and look thou upon good: and behold, this also vanity.
For as the voice of thorns under the pot, so the laughter of the foolish one. Also this is vanity.
Happiness of the The Wicked » Is vain
I Said in my heart, Go now, I will prove thee with gladness, and look thou upon good: and behold, this also vanity.
For as the voice of thorns under the pot, so the laughter of the foolish one. Also this is vanity.
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Sought by the epicureans as the chief aim of life
I Said in my heart, Go now, I will prove thee with gladness, and look thou upon good: and behold, this also vanity.
Lying upon beds of ivory, and stretching out upon their couches, and eating the lambs from the flock, and the calves from the midst of the stall.
If according to man I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what the profit to me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
And certain of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers deliberated with him. And certain said, What may this idle, talkative man wish to say? and others, He seems to be a declarer of strange demons: because he announced to them good news, and the rising up.
Not good in man he shall eat and drink and cause his soul to see good in his labor. Also this I saw that it is from the hand of God.
Behold, what I saw: good, which is beautiful to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor that he will labor under the sun the number of the days of his life, which God gave to him; for this his portion.
And I praised joy, because there is no good to man under the sun but to eat and to drink, and to rejoice: for this shall lodge with him in his labor the days of his life which God gave to him under the sun.
Go eat in joy thy bread, and drink thy wine in a good heart; for already God was satisfied with thy works.
And behold, gladness and joy, killing cattle and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.
Vanity » Worldly pleasure is
I Said in my heart, Go now, I will prove thee with gladness, and look thou upon good: and behold, this also vanity.
Vanity » Worldly pleasure
I Said in my heart, Go now, I will prove thee with gladness, and look thou upon good: and behold, this also vanity.
Worldly » Pleasure results of a pleasure-seeking life » Sought by the epicureans as the chief aim of life
I Said in my heart, Go now, I will prove thee with gladness, and look thou upon good: and behold, this also vanity.
Lying upon beds of ivory, and stretching out upon their couches, and eating the lambs from the flock, and the calves from the midst of the stall.
If according to man I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what the profit to me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
And certain of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers deliberated with him. And certain said, What may this idle, talkative man wish to say? and others, He seems to be a declarer of strange demons: because he announced to them good news, and the rising up.
Not good in man he shall eat and drink and cause his soul to see good in his labor. Also this I saw that it is from the hand of God.
Behold, what I saw: good, which is beautiful to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor that he will labor under the sun the number of the days of his life, which God gave to him; for this his portion.
And I praised joy, because there is no good to man under the sun but to eat and to drink, and to rejoice: for this shall lodge with him in his labor the days of his life which God gave to him under the sun.
Go eat in joy thy bread, and drink thy wine in a good heart; for already God was satisfied with thy works.
And behold, gladness and joy, killing cattle and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.