Ecclesiastes 2:10 meaning and explanation
Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.
Ecclesiastes 2:10, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the Teacher, a royal figure in Jerusalem who has been testing whether pleasure and achievement can give lasting meaning. In this verse he reports his own experiment without apology: he withheld nothing his eyes wanted and let his heart take its pleasure in the work itself.
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