Overview
Ecclesiastes 2:1, The vanity of human courses in the works of pleasure; Ecclesiastes 2:12, Though the wise be better than the fool, yet both have one event; Ecclesiastes 2:18, The vanity of human labour, in leaving it they know not to whom; Ecclesiastes 2:24, Nothing better than joy in our labour; but that is God’s gift.

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: Ecclesiastes 7:2-6, Proverbs 14:13, Isaiah 22:12, Isaiah 22:13, Amos 6:3-6, 1 Peter 4:2-4
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 25:36 - merry Ecclesiastes 7:6 - as Ecclesiastes 10:19 - feast Matthew 13:45 - seeking Luke 6:25 - laugh James 4:9 - let

servants: 1 Kings 9:20-22, Ezra 2:58, Nehemiah 7:57
and had: Genesis 17:12, Genesis 17:13
servants born in my house: Heb. sons of my house
also: Genesis 13:2, 2 Kings 3:4, 1 Chronicles 27:29-31, 2 Chronicles 26:10, 2 Chronicles 32:27-29, Job 1:3, Job 42:12
Reciprocal: Genesis 14:14 - born Genesis 15:3 - born Genesis 30:43 - General Exodus 21:4 - shall be her Jeremiah 2:14 - he a homeborn

silver: 1 Kings 9:14, 1 Kings 9:28, 1 Kings 10:10, 1 Kings 14:21, 1 Kings 14:22, 1 Kings 14:27, 2 Chronicles 9:11, 2 Chronicles 9:15-21
men singers: 2 Samuel 19:35, Ezra 2:65
musical instruments: etc. Heb. musical instrument and instruments, 1 Chronicles 25:1, 1 Chronicles 25:6, Job 21:11, Job 21:12, Psalms 150:3-5, Daniel 3:5, Daniel 3:7, Daniel 3:15, Amos 6:5, The difficult words shiddah weshiddoth are variously rendered. The LXX have ןיםןקןןם ךבי ןיםןקןבע, "male and female cup-bearers," with which the Syriac and Arabic and Parkhurst agree; Aquila, ךץכיךןם ךבי ךץכיךיב, "a cup and smaller cups;" Jerome, scyphos et urceolos, Vulgate urceos), "goblets and pots;" Targum, "warm and cold baths;" others, as M. Desvoeux, "male and female captives;" others, "cooks and confectioners;" others, "a species of musical compositions," derived from Sido, a celebrated Phoenician woman, to whom Sanchoniatho attributes the invention of music; but others, with more probability, "wives and concubines;" and siddoth may be in this sense synonymous with the Arabic seedat, domina, conjux from sada, in Conj. V. conjugium inivit. Of the former, Solomon had three hundred, and of the latter, seven hundred; and if they are not mentioned here they are not mentioned at all, which is wholly unaccountable.
Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 8:18 - took thence Psalms 39:6 - he heapeth Daniel 6:18 - and passed

I turned: Ecclesiastes 1:17, Ecclesiastes 7:25, even that which hath already been done, or, in those things which have been already done, Ecclesiastes 2:25
Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 9:11 - returned

I saw: Ecclesiastes 7:11, Ecclesiastes 7:12, Ecclesiastes 9:16, Proverbs 4:5-7, Proverbs 16:16, Malachi 3:18, Malachi 4:1, Malachi 4:2
that wisdom excelleth folly: Heb. that there is an excellency in wisdom more than in folly, etc
light: Ecclesiastes 11:7, Psalms 119:105, Psalms 119:130, Proverbs 4:18, Proverbs 4:19, Matthew 6:23, Luke 11:34, Luke 11:35, Ephesians 5:8
Reciprocal: Genesis 1:4 - that Ecclesiastes 8:1 - as the Jeremiah 9:23 - wise Daniel 6:3 - an

even to me: Heb. to me
even to me: and why, Ecclesiastes 1:16, Ecclesiastes 1:18, 1 Kings 3:12
Then I: Ecclesiastes 2:1, Ecclesiastes 1:2, Ecclesiastes 1:14
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 3:33 - as a fool dieth Ecclesiastes 7:25 - the reason Ecclesiastes 9:11 - but Ecclesiastes 11:8 - All that 1 Corinthians 15:55 - is thy victory

I hated: Ecclesiastes 2:4-9, Ecclesiastes 1:13, Ecclesiastes 4:3, Ecclesiastes 5:18, Ecclesiastes 9:9
taken: Heb. laboured
I should: Ecclesiastes 2:26, Ecclesiastes 5:13, Ecclesiastes 5:14, 1 Kings 11:11-13, Psalms 17:14, Psalms 39:6, Psalms 49:10, Luke 12:20, Luke 16:27, Luke 16:28, Acts 20:29, Acts 20:30, 1 Corinthians 3:10
Reciprocal: Exodus 1:8 - a new king 1 Kings 14:26 - the shields of gold 2 Chronicles 6:10 - I am risen Esther 8:1 - give the house Esther 8:2 - Esther set Job 14:21 - he knoweth it not Job 20:22 - the fulness Job 21:21 - For what Proverbs 15:16 - great Proverbs 17:25 - General Proverbs 19:13 - foolish Proverbs 27:11 - be wise Ecclesiastes 2:21 - whose Ecclesiastes 5:10 - this Ecclesiastes 9:6 - have they Daniel 11:4 - and shall be Zechariah 9:6 - General

who knoweth: Ecclesiastes 3:22, 1 Kings 12:14-20, 1 Kings 14:25-28, 2 Chronicles 10:13-16, 2 Chronicles 12:9, 2 Chronicles 12:10
wise under: Ecclesiastes 9:13, Luke 16:8, James 1:17, James 3:17
Reciprocal: Exodus 1:8 - a new king 1 Samuel 8:3 - his sons 1 Kings 14:26 - the shields of gold 2 Chronicles 6:10 - I am risen 2 Chronicles 10:14 - My father 2 Chronicles 33:3 - he built again Esther 8:1 - give the house Esther 8:2 - Esther set Job 14:21 - he knoweth it not Job 21:21 - For what Psalms 49:10 - leave Proverbs 10:1 - A wise Proverbs 17:25 - General Proverbs 19:13 - foolish Proverbs 23:24 - father Ecclesiastes 1:2 - General Ecclesiastes 1:3 - under Ecclesiastes 11:8 - All that Jeremiah 9:23 - wise Daniel 11:4 - and shall be