Ecclesiastes 2:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴ 1 And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ I made great works; I built myself houses, I planted vineyards.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;

Common English Bible

⁴ I took on great projects: I built houses for myself, planted vineyards for myself.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ I magnified my works. I built houses for myself, and I planted vineyards.

Ecclesiastes 2:4 Cross References

Genesis 11:4

And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven: and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.

2 Samuel 18:18

3 He answered: But what if I run? And he said to him: Run. Then Achimaas running by a nearer way passed Chusai.

1 Kings 15:19

4 And he slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David his father. And Josaphat his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 9:1

But if you and your children revolting shall turn away from following me, and will not keep my commandments, and my ceremonies, which I have set before you, but will go and worship strange gods, and adore them:

1 Chronicles 27:27

2 And Jonathan David's uncle, a counsellor, a wise and learned man: he and Jahiel the son of Hachamoni were with the king's sons.

2 Chronicles 26:10

5 And he made in Jerusalem engines of diverse kinds, which he placed in the towers, and in the corners of the walls, to shoot arrows, and great stones: and his name went forth far abroad, for the Lord helped him, and had strengthened him.

2 Chronicles 8:11

6 Solomon had all charges prepared, from the day that he founded the house of the Lord, until the day wherein he finished it.

Psalm 49:11

8 For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.

Song of Solomon 1:14

Stay me up with flowers, compass me about with apples: because I languish with love.

Song of Solomon 7:12

Many waters cannot quench charity, neither can the floods drown it: if a man should give all the substance of his house for love, he shall despise it as nothing.

Isaiah 5:1

These things are in my ears, saith the Lord of hosts: Unless many great and fair houses shall become desolate, without an inhabitant.

Daniel 4:30

Baltasar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles: and every one drank according to his age.