Ecclesiastes 2:14
The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
13And I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as much as light differeth from darkness.
Cross References
Psalms 49:10and shall still live unto the end.
Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of a. discreet man is to understand his way: and the imprudence of fools erreth.
Ecclesiastes 3:19Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity.
Ecclesiastes 6:8What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life?
Ecclesiastes 8:1The wisdom of a man shineth in his countenance, and the most mighty will change his face.
Ecclesiastes 9:2But all things are kept uncertain for the time to come, because all things equally happen to the just and to the wicked, to the good and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him that offereth victims, and to him that despiseth sacrifices. As the good is, so also is the sinner: as the perjured, so he also that sweareth truth.
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 →