Ecclesiastes 2:2
| Overview - Ecclesiastes 2 | |
| 1 | The vanity of human courses in the works of pleasure. |
| 12 | Though the wise be better than the fool, yet both have one event. |
| 18 | The vanity of human labour, in leaving it they know not to whom. |
| 24 | Nothing better than joy in our labour; but that is God's gift. |
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Ecclesiastes 2:2 (King James Version)
I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
- I said
- Solomon is not speaking here of sober enjoyment of the things of the world, but of intemperate pleasure, whose two attendants, laughter and mirth, are introduced by a beautiful prosopopoeia, as two persons, whom he treats with the utmost contempt.
- It is
- 7:2-6 Proverbs 14:13 ; Isaiah 22:12 Isaiah 22:13 ; Amos 6:3-6 ; 1 Peter 4:2-4