Ecclesiastes 9:13
Ecclesiastes chapter 9 · verse 13 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000I have also seen wisdom under the sun on this wise, and it seemed great unto me:
KJV
King James Version · 1611This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901I have also seen wisdom under the sun on this wise, and it seemed great unto me:
Context
v.12For 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, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
v.13This passage
v.14There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I applied my 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 9:11
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 favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
- Ecclesiastes 6:1
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:
- Ecclesiastes 7:15
All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his evil-doing.