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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ecclesiastes 2:3 - 2:3
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Illustration more at large of Ecc 2:1, Ecc 2:2.
I sought - I resolved, after search into many plans.
give myself unto wine - literally, “to draw my flesh,” or “body to wine” (including all banquetings). Image from a captive drawn after a chariot in triumph (Rom 6:16, Rom 6:19; 1Co 12:2); or, one “allured” (2Pe 2:18, 2Pe 2:19).
yet acquainting ... wisdom - literally, “and my heart (still) was behaving, or guiding itself,” with wisdom [Gesenius]. Maurer translates: “was weary of (worldly) wisdom.” But the end of Ecc 2:9 confirms English Version.
folly - namely, pleasures of the flesh, termed “mad,” Ecc 2:2.
all the days, etc. - (See Margin and Ecc 6:12; Job 15:20).