Ecclesiastes 9:13 KJV — MannaFest

Ecclesiastes 9:13

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

I have also seen this wisdom under the sun, and it was great to me:

YLT

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

DBT

This also have I seen as wisdom under the sun, and it was great unto me.

About this book

Old Testament

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Ecclesiastes — Qohelet the Preacher — ''vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'' The book's relentless examination of life under the sun, resolving not in despair but in ''fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.''

Author: Traditional: Solomon (''son of David, king in Jerusalem''). Critical: a later Qohelet figure writing in Solomonic persona. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer carries the position.
Date: Solomonic reading: c. 940 BC. Critical reading: Persian or early Hellenistic period (5th–3rd century BC).

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10 verses on the floor

Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
Ecclesiastes 7:15
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
Ecclesiastes 6:1
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
Ecclesiastes 7:19
Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
Proverbs 21:22
A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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, to be the perverse reasoning of the atheists against the doctrine of God's providence; but I rather take it to be Solomon's concession, which he might the more freely make when he had fixed those truths which are sufficient to guard against any ill use that may be made of what he grants.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

A public spirit, in a private sphere, is wisdom which those who understand things that differ cannot but look upon as very magnificent. Solomon here gives an instance, which probably was a case in fact, in some neighbouring country, of a poor man who with his wisdom did great service in a time of public distress and danger (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Rather, "I have seen wisdom of this kind also," that is, exhibited in the way which is described in what follows [MAURER]. (2Sa 20:16-22). bulwarks--military works of besiegers.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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