I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was 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 foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?” Pro 14:131Pe 4:2-4Ecc 7:2-6Amo 6:3-6Isa 22:12-13
I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives. Pro 20:1Ecc 1:17Ecc 12:13Ecc 6:12Eph 5:18Gen 47:9Pro 31:4-51Sa 25:36 I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards. 1Ki 7:1-121Ch 27:271Ki 10:19-201Ki 15:191Ki 9:12Ch 26:102Ch 8:1-62Ch 8:11 I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit. Gen 2:8-9Jer 39:4Luk 17:27-29Sng 4:12Sng 6:2 I made myself pools of water, to water the forest where trees were grown. Neh 2:14Jer 17:8Psa 1:3Sng 7:4 I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem. 1Ch 27:29-311Ki 4:231Ki 9:20-222Ch 26:102Ch 32:27-292Ki 3:4Ezr 2:58Gen 13:2 I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments of all sorts. 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 who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me. 1Ch 29:25Ecc 1:161Ki 10:232Ch 9:22-231Ki 10:71Ki 3:122Ch 1:1 Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor. Ecc 3:22Ecc 5:18Ecc 9:9Psa 119:37Psa 128:21Jn 2:16Ecc 2:22Ecc 11:9 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, 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
I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly; for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago. Ecc 1:17Ecc 7:25Ecc 1:9-10 Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness. 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, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all. Psa 49:10Pro 17:24Ecc 9:111Jn 2:11Ecc 3:19Ecc 9:1-3Ecc 10:2-3Ecc 6:6 Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity. Ecc 6:8Ecc 1:141Ki 3:12Ecc 1:16Ecc 1:18Ecc 1:2Ecc 2:16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool! Ecc 1:11Ecc 9:5Exo 1:8Heb 9:27Mal 3:16Psa 88:122Sa 3:33Ecc 2:14
So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind. Ecc 2:11Ecc 4:2Jon 4:81Ki 19:4Ecc 1:14Ecc 2:22Ecc 3:16Ecc 6:9 I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me. Psa 39:6Psa 49:10Luk 16:27-281Co 3:101Ki 11:11-13Act 20:29-30Ecc 1:13Ecc 1:3 Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. Ecc 3:22Jas 3:171Ki 12:14-201Ki 14:25-282Ch 10:13-162Ch 12:9-10Ecc 9:13Jas 1:17
Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored 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 labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. Ecc 2:17-182Ch 31:20-212Ch 33:2-92Ch 34:22Ch 35:182Ch 36:5-10Ecc 9:18Jer 22:15 For what does a man have of all his labor and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors 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 is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is 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 make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God. 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 can have enjoyment, more than I? Ecc 2:1-121Ki 4:21-24 For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind. Pro 13:22Job 27:16-17Pro 28:8Isa 3:10-11Jhn 16:242Ch 31:20-21Col 3:16-17Pro 3:13-18