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Ecclesiastes 2:3
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My mind, all the while guiding me with wisdom, sought to cheer my body with wine and embrace folly, until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.
Chapter Outline
1.
the vanity of human courses is the work of pleasure
12.
Though the wise be better than the fool, yet both have one event
18.
The vanity of human labor, in leaving it they know not to whom
24.
Nothing better than joy in our labor but that is God's gift
Timeline
950 BC
Ecclesiastes Words of the Preacher
Ecclesiastes 1 - 12
People
Argob
,
Solomon
Places
Jerusalem
Topics
Acquainting
,
Appetite
,
Best
,
Body
,
Cheer
,
Cheering
,
Cherish
,
Conducting
,
Draw
,
During
,
Embracing
,
Explored
,
Flesh
,
Folly
,
Foolish
,
Guiding
,
Heart
,
Heaven
,
Heavens
,
Hold
,
Itself
,
Lay
,
Leading
,
Mind
,
Myself
,
Pamper
,
Pleasure
,
Practising
,
Search
,
Searched
,
Sons
,
Sought
,
Stimulate
,
Till
,
Wanted
,
Wine
,
Wisdom
,
Wisely
,
Worthwhile
,
Yet
Jump to Previous
Best
Cheer
Conducting
Flesh
Folly
Good
Guiding
Heart
Heaven
Hold
Itself
Lay
Searched
Sought
Wine
Wisdom
Jump to Next
Best
Cheer
Conducting
Flesh
Folly
Good
Guiding
Heart
Heaven
Hold
Itself
Lay
Searched
Sought
Wine
Wisdom
Parallel Verses
NASB:
I explored with my mind how to stimulate my body with wine while my mind was guiding me wisely, and how to take hold of folly, until I could see what good there is for the sons of men to do under heaven the few years of their lives.
KJV:
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.
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