Ecclesiastes 2:3

3. Yet acquainting Hebrew, My mind still guiding with wisdom. The sense seems to be, that not rashly or impulsively, but with reflection and self-counsel, he sought to determine whether real enjoyment could be found in merely sensual pleasures.

To lay hold on Hebrew, to enlarge or reinforce. Strengthening by wine, after Koheleth’s idea, is thus stated by an Arabian poet,

“ ‘ Tis we who steal the sense of wine,

Not wine that robbeth us of wit.”

All the days Better, The limited days of their lives; necessarily few.