enjoy. look thou into.
behold. Figure of speech Asterismos.
Solomon’s trial of God’s second gift, namely, riches, and the enjoyment which riches supply; this brought him to the sane result (compare Ecclesia...
I said in my heart, Come now, I will tempt (a) thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity. (a) Solomon makes this...
Ecclesiastes 1:12 to Ecclesiastes 2:26 . Qoheleth's Investigations. Assuming the character of Solomon the writer tells of his search for happine...
I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity. I will prove thee with m...
I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity. I said in mine hea...
I will prove thee with mirth ] Wisdom, whether sought in nature or in human things, having proved unsatisfying, he now makes a cast in another direc...
Epicureanism and Wisdom alike Profitless 1-3. The writer makes enjoyment his quest, while aware that it is folly, and avoiding excess in a philoso...
In mine heart. — To mine heart ( Luke 12:19 ; Psalms 42:11 ). Go to now. — Numbers 22:6 ; Judges 19:11 . Enjoy. — Heb., see.
FIRST SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Wisdom And In Pleasure Ecclesiastes 1:12-18 ; Ecclesiastes 2:1-26 OPPRESSED by his profound sen...
24-26, Vain Undertakings Ecclesiastes 2:1-17 At the beginning of his search for happiness Solomon erected a splendid home and planned all kinds...
Turning from the pursuit of knowledge to the pathway of pleasure, the king had given himself up to mirth, seeking the false stimulus of wine. In this...
CONTENTS In this Chapter the Preacher prosecutes still further the doctrine of the emptiness of creatures, to give happiness. Having in the former C...
I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity. (2) I said of laughter, It...
I said in mine heart ,.... He communed with his heart, he thought and reasoned within himself, and came to this resolution in his own mind; that sin...
I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity. Ver. 1. Go to now,...
I said in my heart Being disappointed of my hopes from knowledge, I resolved to try another course. Go to now O my soul! I will try whether I can...
Vanity of Worldly Pleasure. 1 I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will...
ECCLESIASTES CHAPTER 2 Pleasure and mirth also vanity, Ecclesiastes 2:1,2 ; whether in wine, or buildings and gardens, or servants, or cattle, o...
Chapter 2 The Search for Pleasure. Experimenting With Good Things ( Ecclesiastes 2:1-11 ). Ecclesiastes 2:1 ‘I said in my heart, “Go at it now...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 2:1 . I said in mine heart.] The pronoun is emphatic and denotes the importance of the person who is speaking. Ther...
Ecclesiastes 1:12-2 I. As was natural in so wise a man, the Preacher turns first to wisdom. It is the wisdom that is born of wide and varied exper...
Ecclesiastes 2:1 . Enjoy pleasure. The first doctrine of Epicurus, whose system is here rebutted. Acts 17:18 . Ecclesiastes 2:2 . I said of la...
Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth. The threefold view of human life Three views of human life are given in this remarkable chapter. I....
EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 2:1-21 Section 2. Vanity of striving after pleasure and wealth. Ecclesiastes 2:1 Dissatisfied with the resu...
I said in mine heart, in considering carefully the possibility of enjoyment, Go to, now, I will prove thee with mirth, to find out whether he would...
Solomon's own Example
2 Kings 5:5 ; Ecclesiastes 11:9 ; Ecclesiastes 8:15 ; Ecclesiastes 1:16 ; Ecclesiastes 1:17 ; Ecclesiastes 2:15 ; Ecclesiastes 3:17 ; Ecclesi...
I said — Being disappointed of my hopes from knowledge, I resolved to try another course. Go to — O my soul! I will try whether I cannot make thee...
1 I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.