Psa 39:5-6, Ecc 1:14, 2:1-11, 20-23, 4:8 | TSK | STEP | Behold. as nothing. verily. at his best state. Heb. settled.

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.

7:2-6; Pr 14:13; Isa 22:12,13; Am 6:3-6; 1Pe 4:2-4

sought.

1:17; 1Sa 25:36

give myself unto wine. Heb. draw my flesh with wine. yet.

Pr 20:1; 31:4,5; Eph 5:18

and to lay.

7:18; Pr 20:1; 23:29-35; Mt 6:24; 2Co 6:15-17

till.

6:12; 12:13

all. Heb. the number of.

Ge 47:9; Job 14:14; Ps 90:9-12

made.

Ge 11:4; 2Sa 18:18; Da 4:30

I builded.

De 8:12-14; 1Ki 7:1,2,8-12; 9:1; 15:19; 10:19,20; 2Ch 8:1-6,11

Ps 49:11

I planted.

1Ch 27:27; 2Ch 26:10; So 1:14; 7:12; 8:11,12; Isa 5:1

me.

So 4:12-16; 5:1; 6:2; Jer 39:4

I planted.

Ge 2:8,9; Lu 17:27-29

pools.

Ne 2:14; So 7:4

to water.

Ps 1:3; Jer 17:8

servants.

1Ki 9:20-22; Ezr 2:58; Ne 7:57

and had.

Ge 17:12,13

servants born in my house. Heb. sons of my house. also.

Ge 13:2; 2Ki 3:4; 1Ch 27:29-31; 2Ch 26:10; 32:27-29; Job 1:3; 42:12

silver.

1Ki 9:14,28; 10:10; 14:21,22,27; 2Ch 9:11,15-21

men singers.

2Sa 19:35; Ezr 2:65

musical instruments, etc. Heb. musical instrument andinstruments.

1Ch 25:1,6; Job 21:11,12; Ps 150:3-5; Da 3:5,7,15; Am 6:5The difficult words {shiddah weshiddoth} are variously rendered. The LXX. have [oinocoon kai oinochoas,] "male and female cup-bearers," with which the Syriac and Arabic and Parkhurst agree; Aquila, [kulikon kai kulikia,] "a cup and smaller cups;" Jerome, {scyphos et urceolos, (Vulg. {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.

1:16; 1Ki 3:12; 10:7,23; 1Ch 29:25; 2Ch 1:1; 9:22,23

whatsoever.

3:22; 6:9; 11:9; Ge 3:6; 6:2; Jud 14:2; Job 31:1; Ps 119:37; Pr 23:5

1Jo 2:16

my heart rejoiced.

22; 5:18; 9:9; Ps 128:2

I looked.

1:14; Ge 1:31; Ex 39:43; 1Jo 2:16,17

behold.

17-23; 1:3,14; Hab 2:13; 1Ti 6:6