in mine heart: i.e. resolved.
to give myself unto: or, how to enlist, by wine, my very flesh [in the work]: i.e. the work of proving the heart with mirth "yet retaining wisdom".
wine. Hebrew. yayin. App-27.
wisdom. See note on Ecclesiastes 1:13. men. Hebrew. 'adam. App-14. Note the use of this word in Ecc. See note on Ecclesiastes 1:13.
under the heaven. See note on Ecclesiastes 1:3. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "sun", to which it is equivalent.
all the days. the numbered days.