Ecclesiastes 2:4 Parallel Translations
NASB: I enlarged my works: I built houses for myself, I planted vineyards for myself; (NASB ©1995)
GWT: I accomplished some great things: I built houses for myself. I planted vineyards for myself.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
ASV: I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;
BBE: I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.
DBY: I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;
ERV: I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;
JPS: I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;
WBS: I made me great works; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards:
WEB: I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
YLT: I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.
Ecclesiastes 2:4 Cross References
XREF:1 Kings 7:1 Now Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

Song of Songs 8:11 "Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; He entrusted the vineyard to caretakers. Each one was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
MHC: 2:1-11 Solomon soon found mirth and pleasure to be vanity. What does noisy, flashy mirth towards making a man happy? The manifold devices of men's hearts, to get satisfaction from the world, and their changing from one thing to another, are like the restlessness of a man in a fever. Perceiving it was folly to give himself to wine, he next tried the costly amusements of princes. The poor, when they read such a description, are ready to feel discontent. But the remedy against all such feelings is in the estimate of it all by the owner himself. All was vanity and vexation of spirit: and the same things would yield the same result to us, as to Solomon. Having food and raiment, let us therewith be content. His wisdom remained with him; a strong understanding, with great human knowledge. But every earthly pleasure, when unconnected with better blessings, leaves the mind as eager and unsatisfied as before. Happiness arises not from the situation in which we are placed. It is only through Jesus Christ that final blessedness can be attained.
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