4I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.


In Context

1 I said in my heart, |Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;| and behold, this also was vanity.

2 I said of laughter, |It is foolishness;| and of mirth, |What does it accomplish?|

3 I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

4 I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

5 I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

6 I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were reared.

Ecclesiastes 2:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:4I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:4I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:4I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:4I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:4I made me great works; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:4I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:4I made me great works; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:4I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:4I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.