I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
said
Ecclesiastes 2:15 Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it happens …
Ecclesiastes 1:16,17 I communed with my own heart, saying, See, I am come to great estate…
Ecclesiastes 3:17,18 I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: …
Psalm 10:6 He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never …
Psalm 14:1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, …
Psalm 27:8 When you said, Seek you my face; my heart said to you, Your face, …
Psalm 30:6,7 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved…
Luke 12:19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for …
go to
Genesis 11:3,4,7 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn …
2 Kings 5:5 And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter to …
Isaiah 5:5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will …
James 4:13 Go to now, you that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such …
James 5:1 Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come on you.
i will
Ecclesiastes 8:15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the …
Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you …
Isaiah 50:5,11 The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither …
Luke 16:19,23 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine …
James 5:5 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have …
Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, …
Revelation 18:7,8 How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much …
I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
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.
sought
Ecclesiastes 1:17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: …
1 Samuel 25:36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, …
give myself unto wine or draw myself with wine
Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived …
Proverbs 31:4,5 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; …
Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
and to lay
Ecclesiastes 7:18 It is good that you should take hold of this; yes, also from this …
Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived …
Proverbs 23:29-35 Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? …
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and …
2 Corinthians 6:15-17 And what concord has Christ with Belial? or what part has he that …
till
Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of …
Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep …
all
Genesis 47:9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage …
Job 14:14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time …
Psalm 90:9-12 For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years …
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
made
Genesis 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top …
2 Samuel 18:18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a …
Daniel 4:30 The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have …
I builded
Deuteronomy 8:12-14 Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, …
1 Kings 7:1,2,8-12 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished …
1 Kings 9:1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the …
1 Kings 15:19 There is a league between me and you, and between my father and your …
1 Kings 10:19,20 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: …
2 Chronicles 8:1-6,11 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had …
i planted
1 Chronicles 27:27 And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase …
2 Chronicles 26:10 Also he built towers in the desert, and dig many wells: for he had …
Songs 1:14 My beloved is to me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
Songs 7:12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, …
Songs 8:11,12 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers…
Isaiah 5:1 Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching …
I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
me
Songs 4:12-16 A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain …
Songs 5:1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my …
Songs 6:2 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to …
Jeremiah 39:4 And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, …
i planted
Genesis 2:8,9 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he …
Luke 17:27-29 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in …
I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
servants
1 Kings 9:20-22 And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, …
Ezra 2:58 All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three …
Nehemiah 7:57 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children …
and
Genesis 17:12,13 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every …
servants born in my house or sons of my house
Genesis 13:2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
2 Kings 3:4 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheep master, and rendered to the king …
1 Chronicles 27:29-31 And over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite…
2 Chronicles 26:10 Also he built towers in the desert, and dig many wells: for he had …
2 Chronicles 32:27-29 And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honor: and he made himself …
Job 1:3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, …
Job 42:12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: …
I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
silver
1 Kings 9:14,28 And Hiram sent to the king six score talents of gold…
1 Kings 10:10 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and …
1 Kings 14:21,22,27 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty …
2 Chronicles 9:11,15-21 And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the …
men singers
2 Samuel 19:35 I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good …
Ezra 2:65 Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand …
musical instruments
1 Chronicles 25:1,6 Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service …
Job 21:11,12 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance…
Psalm 150:3-5 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery …
Daniel 3:5,7,15 That at what time you hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, …
Amos 6:5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments …
So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
Ecclesiastes 1:16 I communed with my own heart, saying, See, I am come to great estate…
1 Kings 3:12 Behold, I have done according to your words: see, I have given you …
1 Kings 10:7,23 However, I believed not the words, until I came, and my eyes had …
1 Chronicles 29:25 And the LORD magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel…
2 Chronicles 1:1 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and …
2 Chronicles 9:22,23 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom…
And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
whatsoever
Ecclesiastes 3:22 Why I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should …
Ecclesiastes 6:9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: …
Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you …
Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that …
Genesis 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; …
Judges 14:2 And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have …
Job 31:1 I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think on a maid?
Psalm 119:37 Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken you me in your way.
Proverbs 23:5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not? for riches certainly …
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust …
my heart rejoiced
Ecclesiastes 2:1,22 I said in my heart, Go to now, I will prove you with mirth, therefore …
Ecclesiastes 5:18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat …
Ecclesiastes 9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life …
Psalm 128:2 For you shall eat the labor of your hands: happy shall you be, and …
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
i looked
Ecclesiastes 2:14 The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness: …
Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very …
Exodus 39:43 And Moses did look on all the work, and, behold, they had done it …
1 John 2:16,17 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust …
behold
Ecclesiastes 1:3,14 What profit has a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun…
Habakkuk 2:13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor …
1 Timothy 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.
Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
i saw
Ecclesiastes 7:11,12 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to …
Ecclesiastes 9:16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor …
Proverbs 4:5-7 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from …
Proverbs 16:16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding …
Malachi 3:18 Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the …
Malachi 4:1,2 For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the …
that wisdom excelleth folly or that there is an excellency in wisdom more than in folly
light
Ecclesiastes 11:7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes …
Psalm 119:105,130 Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path…
Proverbs 4:18,19 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more …
Matthew 6:23 But if your eye be evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. …
Luke 11:7 And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door …
Ephesians 5:8 For you were sometimes darkness, but now are you light in the Lord: …
The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
i hated
Numbers 11:15 And if you deal thus with me, kill me, I pray you, out of hand, if …
1 Kings 19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came …
Job 3:20-22 Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul…
Job 7:15,16 So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life…
Job 14:13 O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would keep me secret, …
Jeremiah 20:14-18 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my …
Jonah 4:3,8 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech you, my life from me; for …
Philippians 1:23-25 For I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart, and …
work
Ecclesiastes 1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, …
Ecclesiastes 3:16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness …
Ezekiel 3:14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, …
Habakkuk 1:3 Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for …
for
Ecclesiastes 2:11,22 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had worked, and on the …
Ecclesiastes 6:9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: …
Psalm 89:47 Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?
Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
i hated
Ecclesiastes 2:4-9 I made me great works; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards…
Ecclesiastes 1:13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all …
Ecclesiastes 4:3 Yes, better is he than both they, which has not yet been, who has …
Ecclesiastes 5:18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat …
Ecclesiastes 9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life …
taken
Ecclesiastes 2:26 For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, …
Ecclesiastes 5:13,14 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches …
1 Kings 11:1-13 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter …
Psalm 17:14 From men which are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which …
Psalm 39:6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted …
Psalm 49:10 For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish …
Luke 12:20 But God said to him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required …
Luke 16:27,28 Then he said, I pray you therefore, father, that you would send him …
Acts 20:29,30 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter …
1 Corinthians 3:10 According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master …
And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
who knoweth
Ecclesiastes 3:22 Why I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should …
1 Kings 12:14 And spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My …
1 Kings 14:25-28 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak …
2 Chronicles 10:13-16 And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the …
2 Chronicles 12:9,10 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away …
wise under
Ecclesiastes 9:13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great to me:
Luke 16:8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely…
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down …
James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, …
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
hath man
Ecclesiastes 1:3 What profit has a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 3:9 What profit has he that works in that wherein he labors?
Ecclesiastes 5:10,11,17 He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that …
Ecclesiastes 6:7,8 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled…
Ecclesiastes 8:15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the …
Proverbs 16:26 He that labors labors for himself; for his mouth craves it of him.
1 Timothy 6:8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
and of the
Ecclesiastes 4:6,8 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with …
Psalm 127:2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread …
Matthew 6:11,25,34 Give us this day our daily bread…
Matthew 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and …
Luke 12:22,29 And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Take no thought …
Philippians 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication …
1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care on him; for he cares for you.
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
all
Genesis 47:9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage …
Job 5:7 Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
Psalm 90:7-10,15 For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled…
Psalm 127:2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread …
his heart
Ecclesiastes 5:12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: …
Esther 6:1 On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring …
Job 7:13,14 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints…
Psalm 6:6,7 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; …
Psalm 32:4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me: my moisture is turned …
Psalm 77:2-4 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, …
Daniel 6:18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither …
Acts 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue …
There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
nothing
Ecclesiastes 3:12,13,22 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and …
Ecclesiastes 5:18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat …
Ecclesiastes 8:15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the …
Ecclesiastes 9:7-9 Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a …
Ecclesiastes 11:9,10 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you …
Deuteronomy 12:12,18 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your sons, …
Nehemiah 8:10 Then he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, …
Acts 14:17 Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did …
1 Timothy 6:17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, …
make his soul enjoy good
Ecclesiastes 3:13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good …
Ecclesiastes 5:19 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given …
Ecclesiastes 6:2 A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he …
Malachi 2:2 If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give …
Luke 12:19,20 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for …
For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
in his sight
Genesis 7:1 And the LORD said to Noah, Come you and all your house into the ark; …
Luke 1:6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments …
wisdom
2 Chronicles 31:20,21 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and worked that which …
Proverbs 3:13-18 Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding…
Isaiah 3:10,11 Say you to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they …
John 16:24 Till now have you asked nothing in my name: ask, and you shall receive, …
Romans 14:17,18 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, …
James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, …
to the sinner
Job 27:16,17 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay…
Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children: and …
Proverbs 28:8 He that by usury and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall …
