Ecclesiastes 9:13

I haue also seene this wisedome vnder the sunne, and it is great vnto me.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12For neither doth man knowe his time, but as the fishes which are taken in an euill net, and as the birdes that are caught in the snare: so are the children of men snared in the euill time when it falleth vpon them suddenly.

14A litle citie and fewe men in it, and a great King came against it, and compassed it about, and builded fortes against it.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 6:1There is an euill, which I sawe vnder the sunne, and it is much among men:

Ecclesiastes 8:16When I applied mine heart to knowe wisedome, and to behold the busines that is done on earth, that neither day nor night the eyes of man take sleepe,

Daniel 2:14Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisedome to Arioch the Kings chiefe stewarde, which was gone foorth to put to death the wise men of Babel.

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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