Ecclesiastes 2:6 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

I made pools to water the forest of growing trees.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:

ASV:

I made me pools of water, to water therefrom the forest where trees were reared;

BBE:

I made pools to give water for the woods with their young trees.

DBY:

I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood, where the trees are reared.

ERV:

I made me pools of water, to water therefrom the forest where trees were reared:

JPS:

I made me pools of water, to water therefrom the wood springing up with trees;

WBS:

I made me pools of water, to water with them the wood that bringeth forth trees:

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

Ecclesiastes 2:6 Cross References

XREF:

Nehemiah 2:14 Then I passed on to the Fountain Gate and the King's Pool, but there was no place for my mount to pass.

Nehemiah 3:15 Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, the official of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He built it, covered it and hung its doors with its bolts and its bars, and the wall of the Pool of Shelah at the king's garden as far as the steps that descend from the city of David.

Nehemiah 3:16 After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, official of half the district of Beth-zur, made repairs as far as a point opposite the tombs of David, and as far as the artificial pool and the house of the mighty men. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

2:6 The wood - The nurseries of young trees, which for the multitude of them were like a wood or forest.

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.

CONC:

Bringeth Flourishing Forest Forth Groves Growing Irrigate Myself Ponds Pools Reared Shooting Springing Therefrom Therewith Trees Wood Woods

Flourishing Forest Forth Groves Growing Ponds Pools Reared Shooting Springing Therefrom Therewith Trees Water Wood Woods Young

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