Ecclesiastes 2:1

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with mirth. Therefore, consider with goodness. And behold, this also is vanity.

Cross References

Luke 12:19

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take rest, eat, drink, and be glad.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Then I praised mirth, because nothing is good for man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be glad. For that shall join with him in his labor for the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

James 5:5

You lived luxuriously on the earth, and lived for self-pleasure; you nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter;

James 5:1

Come now, rich ones, weep, howling over your miseries, the ones coming upon you.

Psalm 27:8

My heart said to You, Seek my face; Your face, O Jehovah, I will seek.

James 4:13

Come now, the ones saying, Today or tomorrow we will go into this city, and we will spend one year there, and we will trade and will make a profit,

Titus 3:3

For we also once were senseless, disobedient, being led astray, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Luke 16:19

And a certain man was rich; and dressed in a purple robe and fine linen, being merry living luxuriously according to a day.

Isaiah 50:11

Behold, all of you who kindle fire, who are surrounded by sparks; walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks you are burning. This shall be to you from My hand; you shall lie down in pain.

Isaiah 50:5

The Lord Jehovah has opened My ear and I did not rebel; I did not turn away backwards.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth. And make your heart glad in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Ecclesiastes 7:4

The heart of the wise ones is in the house of mourning; but the heart of the fool is in the house of mirth.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

And I said in my heart, As the event of the fool, even so it will happen to me; and why then was I more wise? And I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

Psalm 14:1

To the chief musician. A Psalm of David. The foolish one has said in his heart, No God! They acted corruptly; they did abominably in deeds; Not one is doing good.

Psalm 10:6

He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved! From generation to generation never in evil.

2 Kings 5:5

And the king of Syria said, Go, go in, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he went and took in his hand ten talents of silver, and six thousand of gold, and ten changes of garments.

Genesis 11:7

Come, let Us go down and confuse their language so that they cannot understand one another’s speech.

Luke 16:23

And being in torments in hell, lifting up his eyes, he sees Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom.

Isaiah 5:5

And now, please, I will make known to you what I will do to My vineyard. I will turn aside its hedge, and it will be burned. I will breach its wall, and it will become a trampling place.

Proverbs 14:13

Even in laughter pain is in the heart and in its end that joy is grief.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

And all that my eyes asked, I did not withdraw from them. I withheld not my heart from all joy; for my heart rejoiced from all my labor; and this was my portion from all my labor.

Ecclesiastes 2:25

For who can eat, or who can enjoy, apart from Me?