Ecclesiastes 2:1
I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with happiness. So enjoy pleasure.” But look, this also was just a temporary breeze.
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2I said about laughter, “It is crazy,” and about pleasure, “What use is it?”
Cross References
Genesis 11:7Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they may not understand each other.”
Psalms 10:6He says in his heart,” I will never fail; 1 throughout all generations I will not meet adversity.” 1
Psalms 27:8My heart says about you, 1 “Seek his face!” I seek your face, Yahweh! 1
Ecclesiastes 1:16I have spoken to my heart saying, “Look, I have acquired greater wisdom than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My mind has seen great wisdom and knowledge.”
Ecclesiastes 2:15Then I said in my heart, 2 “What happens to the fool, 2 will also happen to me. 1 So what difference does it make if I am very wise?” 2 I concluded in my heart, 2 “This too is only vapor.” 1
Ecclesiastes 3:17I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked at the right time for every matter and every deed.”
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 →