Ecclesiastes 2:3 - The Scriptures 2009

³ I searched in my heart how to stimulate my body with wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, until I could see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their lives.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ I searched in my mind how to cheer my body with wine–yet at the same time having my mind hold its course and guide me with [human] wisdom–and how to lay hold of folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their life.

Common English Bible

³ I tried cheering myself with wine and by embracing folly—with wisdom still guiding me—until I might see what is really worth doing in the few days that human beings have under heaven.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ I decided in my heart to withdraw my flesh from wine, so that I might bring my mind to wisdom, and turn away from foolishness, until I see what is useful for the sons of men, and what they ought to do under the sun, during the number of the days of their life.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 2:3 Cross References

Genesis 47:9

And Ya‛aqoḇ said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojournings are one hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.”

Job 14:14

If a man dies, would he live again? All the days of my struggle I wait, till my change comes.

Psalm 104:15

And wine that makes glad the heart of man, Oil to make the face shine, And bread which sustains man’s heart.

Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a scoffer, strong drink a brawler, And whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I set my heart to know wisdom – and to know madness and folly. I know that this too is feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 10:19

A feast is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life; and the silver answers all.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

Let us hear the conclusion of the entire matter: Fear Elohim and guard His commands, for this applies to all mankind!

Ecclesiastes 2:24

A man could do no better but to eat and drink, and enjoy himself in his labour! That too, I saw, was from the hand of Elohim.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

See what I have seen: It is good and beautiful for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life which Elohim gives him, for it is his portion.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his futile life, which he passes like a shadow? For who declares to man what shall be after him, under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:18

It is good that you should take hold of this, and also not withhold your hand from the other. For he who fears Elohim comes forth with all of them.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I have turned round, even my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom and a conclusion, to know the wrongness of folly, even of foolishness and madness.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Therefore I praised enjoyment, because there is no good to man except to eat, and to drink, and to rejoice – and it remains with him in his labour for the days of his life which Elohim has given him under the sun.

Matthew 6:24

No one is able to serve two masters, for either he shall hate the one and love the other, or else he shall cleave to the one and despise the other. You are not able to serve Elohim and mammon.

Ephesians 5:18

And do not be drunk with wine, in which is loose behaviour, but be filled with the Spirit,

Judges 9:13

“And the vine said to them, ‘Shall I leave my new wine, which rejoices mighty ones and men, and go to sway over trees?’

1 Samuel 25:36

And Aḇiḡayil went to Naḇal, and see, he was at a feast in his house, like the feast of a sovereign. And Naḇal’s heart was glad within him, and he was exceedingly drunk. So she told him not a word, little or much, until morning light.