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


In Context

1 I said in my heart, 'Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it is vanity.

2 Of laughter I said, 'Foolish!' and of mirth, 'What is this it is doing?'

3 I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where is this — the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.

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

5 I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.

6 I made for me pools of water, to water from them a forest shooting forth trees.

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 World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:4I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.