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

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New International Version
I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards.

New American Standard Bible
I enlarged my works: I built houses for myself, I planted vineyards for myself;

King James Bible
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I increased my achievements. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.

International Standard Version
With respect to my extravagant works, I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself.

American Standard Version
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;

Douay-Rheims Bible
I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards,

Darby Bible Translation
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;

Young's Literal Translation
I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.

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Context

The Futility of Pleasures

1I said in my heart, Go to now, I will prove you with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity. 2I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What does it? 3I sought in my heart to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life. 4I made me great works; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards: 5I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: 6I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that brings forth trees: 7I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me: 8I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I got me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts. 9So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. 10And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my portion of all my labor. 11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had worked, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Cross References

1 Kings 7:1
But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

Song of Solomon 8:11
Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

Treasury of Scripture

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

made

Genesis 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make us a name...

2 Samuel 18:18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said...

Daniel 4:30 The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power...

I builded

Deuteronomy 8:12-14 Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelled therein...

1 Kings 7:1,2,8-12 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house...

1 Kings 9:1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house...

1 Kings 15:19 There is a league between me and you, and between my father and your father: behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold...

1 Kings 10:19,20 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat...

2 Chronicles 8:1-6,11 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house...

i planted

1 Chronicles 27:27 And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite:

2 Chronicles 26:10 Also he built towers in the desert, and dig many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains...

Songs 1:14 My beloved is to me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.

Songs 7:12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth...

Songs 8:11,12 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers...

Isaiah 5:1 Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

Strong's Concordance

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

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