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Ecclesiastes 2:13

World English Bible

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

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Ecclesiastes 2:13 in other translations

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

Ecclesiastes 2:13 · American Standard Version

Ecclesiastes 2:13 in context

  1. 11Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
  2. 12I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly; for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.
  3. 13Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.
  4. 14The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
  5. 15Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.