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Ecclesiastes 2:13

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

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Ecclesiastes 2:13 in other translations

KJV King James Version

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

BSB Berean Standard Bible

And I saw that wisdom exceeds folly, just as light exceeds darkness:

WEB World English Bible

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

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10 And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my portion of all my labor.

11 Then 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 vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun.

12 And 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 already done.

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

14 The wise man's eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also [is] vanity.

16 For [there is] no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now [is] in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise [man]? as the fool.

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