Ecclesiastes2chapter 2

Rashi on Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said to myself. Since that is so, I will refrain from wisdom, and I will indulge in drinking.

Read it in full at Sefaria · The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001

Aramaic Targum to Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said in my heart, I will go now and try mirth, and behold the good of this world; and when pain and affliction befell me, I said by the divine word, Also this is vanity.

Read it in full at Sefaria · Coheleth, trans. by C.D.Ginsburg, London 1861

Rashi on Ecclesiastes 2:10

I did not deny. I did not distance myself to separate from them, and similarly, “and He held back some of the spirit [that was upon him] and he gave it unto.. the elders,” 13 Bamidbar:25.

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Rashi on Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked. Now at all my deeds, and I see that there is no benefit in them, for from all of them I am lacking. 17 I.e., they do not yield the eternal benefit I had expected of them.

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Rashi on Ecclesiastes 2:12

I [then] turned my attention to behold wisdom. I turn away from all my affairs to delve into Torah, and madness and folly, [i.e.,] the punishment for transgressions.

Read it in full at Sefaria · The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001