Ecclesiastes 9:13

This also have I seen as wisdom under the sun, and it was great unto me.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:

In Context

12For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are taken with the snare, like them are the children of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

14There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and encompassed it, and built great bulwarks against it:

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 6:1There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it is frequent among men:

Ecclesiastes 8:16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes),

Daniel 2:14Then Daniel answered with counsel and prudence to Arioch the chief of the king's bodyguard, who had gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:

Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 9:12-13

The Disappointment of Hopes. 11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them. The preacher here, for a… Read the whole commentary →

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