Ecclesiastes 9:13

This wysdome haue I seene also vnder the sunne, and me thought it a great thing:

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

12For a man knoweth not his tyme: but like as the fishes are taken with the angle, and as the byrdes are caught with the snare: euen so are men taken in the perillous time, when it commeth sodaynly vpon them.

14There was a litle citie and a few men within it: so there came a great kyng and besieged it, and made great bulwarkes against it.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 6:1There is yet a plague vnder the sunne, and it is a generall thyng among men:

Ecclesiastes 8:16And so I applied my minde to learne wysdome, and to knowe the trauayle that is in the worlde, and that of suche a fashion, that I suffred not mine eyes to sleepe neither day nor night.

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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