Ecclesiastes 2:1
I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived?
Cross References
Genesis 11:7Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there may not understand one another's speech.
Psalms 27:8My heart hath said to thee: My face hath sought thee: thy face, O Lord, will I still seek.
Ecclesiastes 1:16I have spoken in my heart, saying: Behold I am become great, and have gone beyond all in wisdom, that were before me in Jerusalem: and my mind hath contemplated many things wisely, and I have learned.
Ecclesiastes 2:15And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity.
Ecclesiastes 3:17And I said in my heart: God shall judge both the just and the wicked, and then shall be the time of every thing.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 2:1
Solomon having pronounced all vanity, and particularly knowledge and learning, which he was so far from giving himself joy of that he found the increase of it did but increase his sorrow, in this chapter he goes on to show what reason he has to be tired of this world, and with what little reason most men are fond of it. I. He shows that there is no true happiness and satisfaction to be had in mirth and pleasure, and the delights of sense, ver. 1-11 . II. He reconsiders the pretensions of wisdom, and allows it to… Read the whole commentary →