Ecclesiastes 2:1 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ I heaped together for myself silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and provinces: I made me singing men, and singing women, and the delights of the sons of men, cups and vessels to serve to pour out wine:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ I SAID in my mind, Come now, I will prove you with mirth and test you with pleasure; so have a good time [enjoy pleasure]. But this also was vanity (emptiness, falsity, and futility)! [Luke 12:19, 20.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also was vanity.

Common English Bible

¹ I said to myself, Come, I will make you experience pleasure; enjoy what is good! But this too was pointless!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ I said in my heart: "I will go forth and overflow with delights, and I will enjoy good things." And I saw that this, too, is emptiness.

Ecclesiastes 2:1 Cross References

Genesis 11:7

Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there may not understand one another's speech.

2 Kings 5:5

0 And Eliseus sent a messenger to him, saying: Go, and wash seven times in the Jordan, and thy flesh shall recover health, and thee shalt be clean.

Psalm 10:6

3 Wherefore hath the wicked provoked God? for he hath said in his heart: He will not require it.

Psalm 14:1

A psalm of David. Lord, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle? or who shall rest in thy holy hill?

Psalm 27:8

A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Proverbs 14:13

0 The poor man shall be hateful even to his own neighbour: but the friends of the rich are many.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Before the silver cord be broken, and the golden fillet shrink back, and the pitcher be crushed at the fountain, and the wheel be broken upon the cistern,

Ecclesiastes 2:10

7 And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

2 For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he bath been tormented under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:25

A time to get, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to cast away.

Ecclesiastes 7:4

1 Wisdom with riches is more profitable, and bringeth more advantage to them that see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten.

Isaiah 5:5

3 Therefore is my people led away captive, because they had not knowledge, and their nobles have perished with famine, and their multitude were dried up with thirst.

Isaiah 50:11

For the worm shall eat them up as a garment: and the moth shall consume them as wool: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice from generation to generation,

Isaiah 50:5

Look unto Abraham your father, and to Sara that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him.

Luke 12:19

7 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. But I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these.

Luke 16:19

7 And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee, that thou wouldst send him to my father's house, for I have five brethren,

Luke 16:23

1 And he said to him: If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe, if one rise again from the dead.

Titus 3:3

2 When I shall send to thee Artemas or Tychicus, make haste to come unto me to Nicopolis. For there I have determined to winter.

James 4:13

You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.

James 5:1

0 Take, my brethren, for an example of suffering evil, of labour and patience, the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.

James 5:5

4 Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the priests of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.