Sought. — The word translated “search out” (Ecclesiastes 1:13).
“Draw,” margin. There is no Biblical parallel for the use of the word in this sense. The general meaning is plain.
Acquainting. — Rather, guiding. The word is used of the driver of an animal or the shepherd of a flock (2 Samuel 6:3; Psalms 80:1; Isaiah 63:4). Kohéleth contemplated not an unrestrained enjoyment of pleasure, but one controlled by prudence.
All the days. — (See margin). This phrase occurs again in Ecclesiastes 5:17; Ecclesiastes 6:12. We have “men of number” in the sense of “few” — i.e., so few that they can be numbered (Genesis 34:30, and often elsewhere). So we may translate here “for their span of life.”