Ecclesiastes 9:13

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12Man knoweth not his own end: but as fishes are taken with the hook, and as birds are caught with the snare, so men are taken in the evil time, when it shall suddenly come upon them.

14A little city, and few men in it: there came against it a great king, and invested it, and built bulwarks round about it, and the siege was perfect.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 6:1There is also another evil, which I have seen under the sun, and that frequent among men:

Ecclesiastes 8:16And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to understand the distraction that is upon earth: for there are some that day and night take no sleep with their eyes.

Daniel 2:14Then Daniel inquired concerning the law and the sentence, of Arioch the general of the king's army, who was gone forth to kill 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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