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Ecclesiastes 2:13

American Standard Version

Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

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Ecclesiastes 2:13 in other translations

Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

Ecclesiastes 2:13 · World English Bible

Ecclesiastes 2:13 in context

  1. 11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
  2. 12And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been done long ago.
  3. 13Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
  4. 14The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all.
  5. 15Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then said I in my heart, that this also is vanity.