Ecclesiastes 9:13

Once I saw something that a wise man did that impressed me.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12No one knows when he will die [EUP]; fish are cruelly caught in a net, and birds are caught in snares/traps; similarly [SIM], people experience disasters at times when they do not expect them to happen.

14There was a small town, where only a few people lived. The army of a great king came to that town and surrounded it. They built dirt ramps up against the walls in order to climb up and attack the town.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 6:1I have seen something else here on this earth that troubles people.

Ecclesiastes 8:16I thought about being wise and about people who work very hard, working day and night and not taking time to sleep.

Daniel 2:14Arioch, the commander of the king’s guards, came to kill us. But I spoke to him very wisely and tactfully/skillfully.

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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