NASB
"I enlarged my works: I built houses for myself, I planted vineyards for myself;"
— Ecclesiastes 2:4, NASB
“I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:”
“I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards; ”
“I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.”
“Futility of Materialism I increased my possessions: I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself.”
“I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards,”
“I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.”
“I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:”
I said to myself, "Come now, I will test you with pleasure. So enjoy yourself." And behold, it too was futility.
I said of laughter, "It is madness," and of pleasure, "What does it accomplish?"
I explored with my mind how to stimulate my body with wine while my mind was guiding me wisely, and how to take hold of folly, until I could see what good there is for the sons of men to do under heaven the few years of their lives.
I enlarged my works: I built houses for myself, I planted vineyards for myself;
I made gardens and parks for myself and I planted in them all kinds of fruit trees;
I made ponds of water for myself from which to irrigate a forest of growing trees.
I bought male and female slaves and I had homeborn slaves. Also I possessed flocks and herds larger than all who preceded me in Jerusalem.