Ecclesiastes 2:3

The Vanity of Pleasure

1 I said ^ain my heart, “Come now, I will test you with ^bmirth; therefore enjoy pleasure”; but surely, ^cthis also was vanity.

2 I said of laughter—“Madness!”; and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”

3 ^aI searched in my heart how¹ to gratify my flesh with wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was ^bgood for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.

4 I made my works great, I built myself ^ahouses, and planted myself vineyards.

5 I made myself gardens and orchards, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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To give myself unto wine, (yet acquainting [ noheg , "guiding" ] mine heart with wisdom) - I did not run into extremes, as when I gave up myself to mirth and pleasure. There, I threw off all restraint; here, I took the middle course, to see whether a moderate enjoyment of the things of the world might not produce that happiness which I supposed man was created to enjoy here below.

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