Ecclesiastes 2

Treated in 6 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 2:11 Then I looked at all that my hands had done and at the hard work I had spent in doing it, and I found that everything was a breath and chasing the wind. Nothing was gained under the sun. 2
  • 2:2 I said of laughter, "It is madness," and of pleasure, "What good does it do?" 1
  • 2:14 The wise have eyes in their heads, but the fool walks in the dark. Yet I also came to know that one fate comes to them all. 1
  • 2:16 For the wise will not be remembered forever, any more than the fool, since in the days to come all will be long forgotten. See how the wise die, just like fools! 1
  • 2:24 There is nothing better for people than to eat and drink and find enjoyment in their hard work. This too, I saw, comes from the hand of God. 1

Open Word Bible

Where it is preached

  1. A Call to the Unconverted · Richard Baxter

    Sermon III cites Eccles. ii. 2

    …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…

  3. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Christ's Prophetic Office cites Eccles 2:11

    …into a still, and when he came to extract the spirit and quintessence, all was vanity. Eccles 2:11. The apostle calls it a show or apparition, having no intrinsic goodness. I Cor 7:31. The…

  4. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

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

    …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…

  5. Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards · Jonathan Edwards

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

    …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…

  6. Anchored – 30 Days with God for Teens – Book 2 · Ochorus Originals

    Day 8 — Bored cites Ecclesiastes 2:24–25

    …is from the hand of God. For apart from Him, who can eat and who can find enjoyment?” — Ecclesiastes 2:24–25 (BSB) The same bus. The same lessons. The same chores, the same food, the same arguments…