Ecclesiastes 9:13

This also I have seen: wisdom under the sun, and it is great to me.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these [are] the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.

14A little city, and few men in it, and a great king hath come unto it, and hath surrounded it, and hath built against it great bulwarks;

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 6:1There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it [is] great on man:

Ecclesiastes 8:16When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),

Daniel 2:14Then Daniel hath replied [with] counsel and discretion to Arioch chief of the executioners of the king, who hath gone forth to slay 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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