Charles Ellicott Commentary Ecclesiastes 10:19

"A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh glad the life; and money answereth all things." — Ecclesiastes 10:19 (ASV)

I look on these verses as isolated proverbs and believe that the obvious meaning suggested by the English of this verse is the right one. Those who strive to trace a continuity of thought take Ecclesiastes 10:18 as a figurative description of the ruin of an ill-governed land; Ecclesiastes 10:19 as describing the riot of those rulers who make feasts for merriment and have money freely at their disposal; and Ecclesiastes 10:20 as a warning to the subjects to take care that, despite all this misgovernment, they do not venture to rebel.