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Ecclesiastes 2:4

World English Bible

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

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Ecclesiastes 2:4 in other translations

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;

Ecclesiastes 2:4 · American Standard Version

Ecclesiastes 2:4 in context

  1. 2I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”
  2. 3I 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.
  3. 4I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
  4. 5I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
  5. 6I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were grown.