I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity. Luk 12:19Ecc 8:15Jas 5:1Jas 5:5Psa 27:82Ki 5:5Ecc 1:16-17Ecc 11:9 I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it? Pro 14:131Pe 4:2-4Ecc 7:2-6Amo 6:3-6Isa 22:12-13 I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life. 1 2 Pro 20:1Ecc 1:17Ecc 12:13Ecc 6:12Eph 5:18Gen 47:9Pro 31:4-51Sa 25:36 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: 1Ki 7:1-121Ch 27:271Ki 10:19-201Ki 15:191Ki 9:12Ch 26:102Ch 8:1-62Ch 8:11 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: Gen 2:8-9Jer 39:4Luk 17:27-29Sng 4:12Sng 6:2 I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees: Neh 2:14Jer 17:8Psa 1:3Sng 7:4 I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me: 3 1Ch 27:29-311Ki 4:231Ki 9:20-222Ch 26:102Ch 32:27-292Ki 3:4Ezr 2:58Gen 13:2 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts. 4 1Ki 10:101Ki 9:282Sa 19:351Ki 10:141Ch 25:11Ch 25:61Ki 10:211Ki 14:21-22 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. 1Ch 29:25Ecc 1:161Ki 10:232Ch 9:22-231Ki 10:71Ki 3:122Ch 1:1 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. Ecc 3:22Ecc 5:18Ecc 9:9Psa 119:37Psa 128:21Jn 2:16Ecc 2:22Ecc 11:9 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. Ecc 1:141Jn 2:16-17Ecc 1:31Ti 6:6Exo 39:43Gen 1:31Ecc 2:17-23Hab 2:13
¶ And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done. 5 Ecc 1:17Ecc 7:25Ecc 1:9-10 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. 6 Eph 5:8Ecc 7:11-12Ecc 11:7Mat 6:23Luk 11:34-35Mal 3:18Psa 119:105Ecc 7:19 The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all. Psa 49:10Pro 17:24Ecc 9:111Jn 2:11Ecc 3:19Ecc 9:1-3Ecc 10:2-3Ecc 6:6 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity. 7 Ecc 6:8Ecc 1:141Ki 3:12Ecc 1:16Ecc 1:18Ecc 1:2Ecc 2:16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool. Ecc 1:11Ecc 9:5Exo 1:8Heb 9:27Mal 3:16Psa 88:122Sa 3:33Ecc 2:14
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Ecc 2:11Ecc 4:2Jon 4:81Ki 19:4Ecc 1:14Ecc 2:22Ecc 3:16Ecc 6:9
¶ Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. 8 Psa 39:6Psa 49:10Luk 16:27-281Co 3:101Ki 11:11-13Act 20:29-30Ecc 1:13Ecc 1:3 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity. Ecc 3:22Jas 3:171Ki 12:14-201Ki 14:25-282Ch 10:13-162Ch 12:9-10Ecc 9:13Jas 1:17 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun. 1Co 15:191Th 3:3-42Co 1:8-10Gen 43:14Job 17:11-15Psa 39:6-7 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil. 9 Ecc 2:17-182Ch 31:20-212Ch 33:2-92Ch 34:22Ch 35:182Ch 36:5-10Ecc 9:18Jer 22:15 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? Ecc 1:3Psa 127:21Pe 5:71Ti 6:8Ecc 3:9Ecc 4:6Mat 6:34Php 4:6 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. Job 14:1Job 5:7Job 7:13-14Psa 127:2Psa 6:6-7Act 14:22Dan 6:18Ecc 1:18
¶ There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. 10 Ecc 3:22Ecc 8:151Ti 6:17Ecc 3:12-13Ecc 5:18-19Ecc 9:7-91Co 15:32Deu 12:18 For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I? Ecc 2:1-121Ki 4:21-24 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit. 11 Pro 13:22Job 27:16-17Pro 28:8Isa 3:10-11Jhn 16:242Ch 31:20-21Col 3:16-17Pro 3:13-18