Graphic Bible · Scene 2 of 10

Stone houses, vineyards, garden trees and irrigation pools fill an ancient cultivated estate.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

Ecclesiastes 2:4-6

Works of My Hands

Pleasure, Labor, and What Remains · Ecclesiastes 2

Story guide: Interpretive visual essay. Anonymous figures and settings illustrate this passage; they are not identified historical people.

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4I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself.

5I made for myself gardens and parks, and I planted in them every kind of fruit tree.

6I made pools of water for myself to irrigate a woodland of growing trees.

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