Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.
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In Context
13Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.
Cross References
Psalms 49:10\49:9\So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.
Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.
Ecclesiastes 3:19Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 6:8What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?
Ecclesiastes 8:1Who is like the wise man? and to whom is the sense of anything clear? A man's wisdom makes his face shining, and his hard face will be changed.
Ecclesiastes 9:2Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 2:13-17
Superiority of Wisdom to Folly. 12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done. 13 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. 14 The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all. 15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more… Read the whole commentary →