Ecclesiastes 2

Treated in 4 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 2:2 I said of laughter, It is mad; and of mirth, What doeth it? 1
  • 2:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun. 1
  • 2:14 The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all. 1
  • 2:16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool! 1

American Standard Version

Where it is preached

  1. A Call to the Unconverted · Richard Baxter

    Sermon III cites Eccles. ii. 2

    …y; and therefore Solomon saith of such laughter, “it is mad, and of mirth, what doth it?” Eccles. ii. 2. and Eccles. vii. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. “It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go …

  2. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.10 The Tenth Commandment cites Eccl 2: 11

    …the creatures in a retort, and distilled out their essence, and behold, ‘All was vanity.’ Eccl 2: 11. Covetousness is a dry dropsy — the more a man has the more he thirsts. Quo plus sunt pot…

  3. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    Exhortations to those who are called cites Eccles. ii. 14

    …g wisely implies three things. (a) To walk warily. “The wise man’s eyes are in his head” (Eccles. ii. 14). Others watch for our halting, therefore we had need look to our standing. We must bewar…

  4. Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards · Jonathan Edwards

    Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God cites Eccles. ii. 16

    …rs, with regard to their liableness to early and unexpected death; but how is it in fact? Eccles. ii. 16, “How dieth the wise man? As the fool.” 9. All wicked men’s pains and contrivance they us…