Ecclesiastes 2:1

Geneva Bible (1560)

I said in mine heart, Goe to nowe, I will proue thee with ioy: therefore take thou pleasure in pleasant things: and beholde, this also is vanitie.

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  • Luke 12:19 : 19 And I wil say to my soule, Soule, thou hast much goods laide vp for many yeeres: liue at ease, eate, drinke and take thy pastime.
  • Eccl 8:15 : 15 And I praysed ioy: for there is no goodnesse to man vnder the sunne, saue to eate and to drinke and to reioyce: for this is adioyned to his labour, the dayes of his life that God hath giuen him vnder the sunne.
  • Eccl 11:9 : 9 Reioyce, O yong man, in thy youth, and let thine heart cheere thee in the dayes of thy youth: and walke in the waies of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but knowe that for all these things, God wil bring thee to iudgement.
  • Isa 5:5 : 5 And nowe I will tell you what I will do to my vineyarde: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten vp: I will breake the wall thereof, and it shall be troden downe:
  • Isa 50:5 : 5 The Lord God hath opened mine eare and I was not rebellious, neither turned I backe.
  • Isa 50:11 : 11 Beholde, all you kindle a fire, and are compassed about with sparkes: walke in the light of your fire, and in the sparkes that ye haue kindled. This shall ye haue of mine hand: ye shall lye downe in sorowe.
  • Luke 16:19 : 19 There was a certaine riche man, which was clothed in purple and fine linnen, and fared well and delicately euery day.
  • Luke 16:23 : 23 And being in hell in torments, he lift vp his eyes, and sawe Abraham a farre off, and Lazarus in his bosome.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For wee our selues also were in times past vnwise, disobedient, deceiued, seruing the lustes and diuers pleasures, liuing in maliciousnes and enuie, hatefull, and hating one another:
  • Jas 4:13 : 13 Goe to now ye that say, To day or to morowe we will goe into such a citie, and continue there a yeere, and bye and sell, and get gaine,
  • Jas 5:1 : 1 Go to nowe, ye rich men: weepe, and howle for your miseries that shall come vpon you.
  • Jas 5:5 : 5 Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth, and in wantonnes. Ye haue nourished your heartes, as in a day of slaughter.
  • Rev 18:7-8 : 7 In as much as she glorified her selfe, and liued in pleasure, so much giue ye to her torment & sorow: for she saith in her heart, I sit being a queene, and am no widowe, and shall see no mourning. 8 Therefore shall her plagues come at one day, death, and sorowe, and famine, and she shalbe burnt with fire: for that God which condemneth her, is a strong Lord.
  • Gen 11:3-4 : 3 And they said one to another, Come, let vs make bricke, and burne it in the fire. So they had bricke for stone, and slyme had they in steade of morter. 4 Also they said, Goe to, let vs builde vs a citie and a towre, whose top may reache vnto the heauen, that we may get vs a name, lest we be scattered vpon the whole earth.
  • Gen 11:7 : 7 Come on, let vs goe downe, and there confound their language, that euery one perceiue not anothers speache.
  • 2 Kgs 5:5 : 5 And the King of Aram sayde, Goe thy way thither, and I will send a letter vnto the King of Israel; he departed, and tooke with him ten talents of siluer, and sixe thousand pieces of golde, and ten change of rayments,
  • Ps 10:6 : 6 He saith in his heart, I shall neuer be moued, nor be in danger.
  • Ps 14:1 : 1 To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. The foole hath said in his heart, There is no God: they haue corrupted, & done an abominable worke: there is none that doeth good.
  • Ps 27:8 : 8 When thou saidest, Seeke ye my face, mine heart answered vnto thee, O Lorde, I will seeke thy face.
  • Ps 30:6-7 : 6 And in my prosperitie I sayde, I shall neuer be moued. 7 For thou Lord of thy goodnes hadest made my mountaine to stande strong: but thou didest hide thy face, and I was troubled.
  • Eccl 1:16-17 : 16 I thought in mine heart, and said, Behold, I am become great, and excell in wisdome all them that haue bene before me in Ierusalem: and mine heart hath seene much wisedome and knowledge. 17 And I gaue mine heart to knowe wisdome and knowledge, madnes and foolishnes: I knew also that this is a vexation of the spirit.
  • Eccl 2:15 : 15 Then I thought in mine heart, It befalleth vnto me, as it befalleth to ye foole. Why therefore doe I then labour to be more wise? And I sayd in mine heart, that this also is vanitie.
  • Eccl 3:17-18 : 17 I thought in mine heart, God wil iudge the iust and the wicked: for time is there for euery purpose and for euery worke. 18 I considered in mine heart the state of the children of men that God had purged them: yet to see to, they are in themselues as beastes.
  • Eccl 7:4 : 4 (7:6) The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fooles is in the house of mirth.

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  • Eccl 2:2-4
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    2I saide of laughter, Thou art mad: and of ioy, What is this that thou doest?

    3I sought in mine heart to giue my selfe to wine, and to leade mine heart in wisdome, and to take holde of follie, till I might see where is that goodnesse of the children of men, which they enioy vnder the sunne: the whole nomber of the dayes of their life.

    4I haue made my great workes: I haue built me houses: I haue planted me vineyards.

  • Eccl 2:15
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    15Then I thought in mine heart, It befalleth vnto me, as it befalleth to ye foole. Why therefore doe I then labour to be more wise? And I sayd in mine heart, that this also is vanitie.

  • Eccl 1:16-17
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    16I thought in mine heart, and said, Behold, I am become great, and excell in wisdome all them that haue bene before me in Ierusalem: and mine heart hath seene much wisedome and knowledge.

    17And I gaue mine heart to knowe wisdome and knowledge, madnes and foolishnes: I knew also that this is a vexation of the spirit.

  • Eccl 2:8-13
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    8I haue gathered vnto me also siluer and gold, and the chiefe treasures of Kings & prouinces: I haue prouided me men singers and women singers, and the delites of the sonnes of men, as a woman taken captiue, & women taken captiues.

    9And I was great, & increased aboue all that were before me in Ierusalem: also my wisedome remained with me.

    10And whatsoeuer mine eyes desired, I withheld it not from them: I withdrew not mine heart from any ioy: for mine heart reioyced in al my labour: & this was my portion of all my trauaile.

    11Then I looked on all my workes that mine hands had wrought, and on the trauaile that I had laboured to doe: and beholde, all is vanitie and vexation of the spirit: and there is no profite vnder the sunne.

    12And I turned to beholde wisedome, and madnes and follie: (for who is the man that will come after the King in things, which men nowe haue done?)

    13Then I saw that there is profite in wisdome, more then in follie: as the light is more excellent then darkenes.

  • Eccl 1:1-3
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    1The wordes of the Preacher, the sonne of Dauid King in Ierusalem.

    2Vanitie of vanities, sayth the Preacher: vanitie of vanities, all is vanitie.

    3What remaineth vnto man in all his trauaile, which he suffereth vnder ye sunne?

  • Eccl 8:14-16
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    14There is a vanitie, which is done vpon the earth, that there be righteous men to whom it commeth according to the worke of the wicked: and there be wicked men to whom it commeth according to the worke of the iust: I thought also that this is vanitie.

    15And I praysed ioy: for there is no goodnesse to man vnder the sunne, saue to eate and to drinke and to reioyce: for this is adioyned to his labour, the dayes of his life that God hath giuen him vnder the sunne.

    16When I applied mine heart to knowe wisedome, and to behold the busines that is done on earth, that neither day nor night the eyes of man take sleepe,

  • Eccl 2:19-26
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    19And who knoweth whether he shalbe wise or foolish? yet shall hee haue rule ouer all my labour, wherein I haue trauailed, and wherein I haue shewed my selfe wise vnder the sunne. This is also vanitie.

    20Therefore I went about to make mine heart abhorre all the labour, wherein I had trauailed vnder the sunne.

    21For there is a man whose trauaile is in wisdome, and in knowledge and in equitie: yet to a man that hath not trauailed herein, shal he giue his portion: this also is vanitie and a great griefe.

    22For what hath man of all his trauaile and griefe of his heart, wherein he hath trauailed vnder the sunne?

    23For all his dayes are sorowes, and his trauaile griefe: his heart also taketh not rest in the night: which also is vanitie.

    24There is no profit to man: but that he eate, and drinke, & delight his soule with the profit of his labour: I saw also this, that it was of the hand of God.

    25For who could eate, and who could haste to outward things more then I?

    26Surely to a man that is good in his sight, God giueth wisdome, and knowledge, and ioy: but to the sinner he giueth paine, to gather, and to heape to giue to him that is good before God: this is also vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.

  • Eccl 1:13-14
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    13And I haue giuen mine heart to search and finde out wisdome by all things that are done vnder the heauen: (this sore trauaile hath GOD giuen to the sonnes of men, to humble them thereby)

    14I haue considered all the workes that are done vnder the sunne, and beholde, all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.

  • Eccl 3:12
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    12I know that there is nothing good in them, but to reioyce, and to doe good in his life.

  • Eccl 7:25
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    25(7:27) I haue compassed about, both I and mine heart to knowe and to enquire and to search wisedome, and reason, and to knowe the wickednesse of follie, and the foolishnesse of madnesse,

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22Therefore I see that there is nothing better then that a man shoulde reioyce in his affaires, because that is his portion. For who shal bring him to see what shalbe after him?

  • Eccl 2:17
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    17Therefore I hated life: for the worke that is wrought vnder the sunne is grieuous vnto me: for all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8Vanitie of vanities, saieth the Preacher, all is vanitie.

  • Eccl 11:8-10
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    8Though a man liue many yeeres, and in them all he reioyce, yet hee shall remember the daies of darkenesse, because they are manie, all that commeth is vanitie.

    9Reioyce, O yong man, in thy youth, and let thine heart cheere thee in the dayes of thy youth: and walke in the waies of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but knowe that for all these things, God wil bring thee to iudgement.

    10Therefore take away griefe out of thine heart, and cause euil to depart from thy flesh: for childehoode and youth are vanitie.

  • Eccl 4:7
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    7Againe I returned, and sawe vanitie vnder the sunne.

  • Eccl 3:18
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    18I considered in mine heart the state of the children of men that God had purged them: yet to see to, they are in themselues as beastes.

  • Eccl 9:9
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    9Reioyce with the wife whom thou hast loued all the dayes of the life of thy vanitie, which God hath giuen thee vnder the sunne all the dayes of thy vanitie: for this is thy portion in the life, and in thy trauaile wherein thou labourest vnder the sunne.

  • Eccl 6:9
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    9The sight of ye eye is better then to walke in ye lustes: this also is vanitie, & vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 6:11
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    11(7:1) Svrely there be many things that increase vanitie: and what auaileth it man?

  • Prov 14:13
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    13Euen in laughing the heart is sorowful, and the ende of that mirth is heauinesse.

  • Eccl 7:6
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    6(7:8) For like ye noyse of the thornes vnder the pot, so is the laughter of the foole: this also is vanitie.

  • Eccl 7:4
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    4(7:6) The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fooles is in the house of mirth.

  • Eccl 4:4
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    4Also I beheld all trauaile, & all perfection of workes that this is ye enuie of a man against his neighbour: this also is vanitie & vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 8:10
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    10And likewise I sawe the wicked buried, and they returned, and they that came from the holy place, were yet forgotten in the citie where they had done right: this also is vanitie.

  • Eccl 4:16
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    16There is none ende of all the people, nor of all that were before them, and they that come after, shall not reioyce in him: surely this is also vanitie and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 5:18
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    18(5:17) Beholde then, what I haue seene good, that it is comely to eate, and to drinke, and to take pleasure in all his labour, wherein he traueileth vnder the sunne, the whole nomber of the dayes of his life, which God giueth him: for this is his portion.

  • Eccl 3:10
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    10I haue seene the trauaile that God hath giuen to ye sonnes of men to humble them thereby.

  • Eccl 9:7
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    7Goe, eate thy bread with ioy, & drinke thy wine with a cheerefull heart: for God nowe accepteth thy workes.