Ecclesiastes 9:13

Here's another aspect of wisdom that impressed me about what happens here on earth.

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

In Context

12You can't predict when your end will come. Just like fish caught in a net, or birds caught in a trap, so people are suddenly caught by death when they least expect it.

14Once there was a small town with only a few inhabitants. A powerful king came and besieged the town, building great earth ramps against its walls.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 6:1I have observed another evil here on earth, and it has a great impact on humanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:16When I applied my mind to discovering wisdom and observing everything people do here on earth, I couldn't get any sleep, day or night.

Daniel 2:14Daniel approached Arioch, the commander of the imperial guard, whom the king had put in charge of the order to execute all the wise men of Babylon. Wisely and tactfully

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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