Ecclesiastes 2:3

WEB

³I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

KJV

³I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

BSB

³I sought to cheer my body with wine and to embrace folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.

FBV

³^[+] Then I used my mind to examine the attraction^[+] of wine to my body. My mind still guiding me with wisdom, I took it until I acted like a fool,^[+] so that I might see whether this was good for people to do during their time here.

Extra References

Proverbs 20:1

¹Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

¹⁷I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

Ephesians 5:18

¹⁸Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Proverbs 31:4-5

⁴It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’ ⁵lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

¹³This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Genesis 47:9

⁹Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

Ecclesiastes 6:12

¹²For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

2 Corinthians 6:15-17

¹⁵What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever? ¹⁶What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”¹⁷Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

1 Samuel 25:36

³⁶Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.

Matthew 6:24

²⁴“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.