Ecclesiastes 9:13

I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.

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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 man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

14There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 6:1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:

Ecclesiastes 8:16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),

Daniel 2:14Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, who had gone out 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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