Ecclesiastes 2:4
“I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
I made me great works,.... He did not spend his time in trifling things, as Domitian (a), in catching and killing flies;…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Ecclesiastes 2:1-11
Solomon here, in pursuit of the summum bonum - the felicity of man, adjourns out of his study, his library, his…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
I made me great works The verse may be either a retrospect of the details of the life of the pleasure-seeker as sketched…
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