Ecclesiastes 2:3

Young's Literal Translation 1898

I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where [is] this — the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, ‘The days of the years of my sojournings [are] an 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 dieth — doth he revive? All days of my warfare I wait, till my change come.

Psalm 104:15

And wine — it rejoiceth the heart of man, To cause the face to shine from oil, And bread — the heart of man it supporteth.

Proverbs 20:1

Wine [is] a scorner — strong drink [is] noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this [is] vexation of spirit;

Ecclesiastes 10:19

For mirth they are making a feast, And wine maketh life joyful, And the silver answereth with all.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

The end of the whole matter let us hear: — ‘Fear God, and keep His commands, for this [is] the whole of man.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it [is] from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Lo, that which I have seen: [It is] good, because beautiful, to eat, and to drink, and to see good in all one's labour that he laboureth at under the sun, the number of the days of his life that God hath given to him, for it [is] his portion.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knoweth what [is] good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:18

[It is] good that thou dost lay hold on this, and also, from that withdrawest not thy hand, for whoso is fearing God goeth out with them all.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remaineth with him of his labour the days of his life that God hath given to him under the sun.

Matthew 6:24

‘None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

Ephesians 5:18

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

Judges 9:13

And the vine saith to them, Have I ceased from my new wine, which is rejoicing gods and men, that I have gone to stagger over the trees?

1 Samuel 25:36

And Abigail cometh in unto Nabal, and lo, he hath a banquet in his house, like a banquet of the king, and the heart of Nabal [is] glad within him, and he [is] drunk unto excess, and she hath not declared to him anything, less or more, till the light of the morning.