Ecclesiastes 2:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

Then I saw that wisdom excels folly just as light excels darkness.

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  • Eccl 7:11-12 : 11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance, and by it there is profit to those who see the sun. 12 For wisdom is a defense, and money is a defense, but the excellence of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to those who have it.
  • Matt 6:23 : 23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
  • Eph 5:8 : 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
  • Luke 11:34-35 : 34 The light of the body is the eye: therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is full of light; but when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness. 35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in you is not darkness.
  • Eccl 7:19 : 19 Wisdom strengthens the wise more than ten mighty men in the city.
  • Eccl 9:16 : 16 Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength; nevertheless, the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
  • Eccl 9:18 : 18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.
  • Eccl 11:7 : 7 Truly the light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to behold the sun.
  • Mal 3:18-4:2 : 18 Then shall you return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him. 1 For behold, the day comes that shall burn like an oven, and all the proud, yes, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But to you who fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings, and you shall go forth and grow up like stall-fed calves.
  • Ps 119:105 : 105 NUN. Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.
  • Ps 119:130 : 130 The entrance of Your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.
  • Prov 4:5-7 : 5 Get wisdom, get understanding: do not forget it; neither turn away from the words of my mouth. 6 Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you: love her, and she will keep you. 7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all your getting, get understanding.
  • Prov 4:18-19 : 18 But the path of the just is like the shining light, that shines more and more unto the perfect day. 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know at what they stumble.
  • Prov 16:16 : 16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold, and to choose understanding rather than silver!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 2:14-17
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    86%

    14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I myself perceived that the same event happens to them all.

    15 So I said in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me. And why was I then more wise?" Then I said in my heart, "This also is vanity."

    16 For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever, since what now is will all be forgotten in the days to come. And how does the wise man die? Just like the fool.

    17 Therefore I hated life, because the work that was done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 2:11-12
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    11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labor I had toiled to do; and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

    12 I turned to consider wisdom, madness, and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.

  • Eccl 1:16-18
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    16 I communed with my own heart, saying, Look, I have attained great stature, and gained more wisdom than all who were before me in Jerusalem: yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

    17 And I set my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is a striving after wind.

    18 For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

  • Eccl 9:13
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    13 This wisdom I have seen also under the sun, and it seemed great to me:

  • Eccl 7:25
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    25 I applied my heart to know, to search, and to seek out wisdom and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even foolishness and madness.

  • Eccl 1:13-14
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    13 And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this difficult task God has given to the children of man to be engaged with.

    14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Eccl 2:1-3
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    1 I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure." And behold, this also is vanity.

    2 I said of laughter, "It is madness," and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"

    3 I searched in my heart to give myself to wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what is good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.

  • Eccl 7:11
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    11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance, and by it there is profit to those who see the sun.

  • Eccl 8:16-17
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    16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the work that is done upon the earth (for there are those who neither day nor night see sleep with their eyes),

    17 Then I saw all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. Even though a man labors to seek it out, he shall not find it; moreover, though a wise man thinks to know it, he shall not be able to find it.

  • Eccl 2:19-21
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    19 And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I have labored and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

    20 Therefore I turned my heart to despair over all the labor which I had done under the sun.

    21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill. Yet he must leave his inheritance to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

  • Eccl 2:9
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    9 So I became great and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also, my wisdom remained with me.

  • Eccl 6:8-9
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    8 For what has the wise more than the fool? what does the poor have, who knows to walk before the living?

    9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire: this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Prov 15:21
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    21 Folly is joy to him who is destitute of wisdom, but a man of understanding walks uprightly.

  • Eccl 4:3
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    3 Yes, better is he than both, who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

  • Prov 17:24
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    24 Wisdom is in the sight of him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

  • Eccl 9:16-17
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    16 Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength; nevertheless, the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

    17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that rules among fools.

  • Prov 14:8
    72%

    8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

  • Eccl 7:23
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    23 All this have I tested by wisdom. I said, 'I will be wise,' but it was far from me.

  • Eccl 2:25-26
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    25 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

    26 For God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy to the man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and collecting, only to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Prov 14:33
    72%

    33 Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding, but what is in the heart of fools is made known.

  • Eccl 3:16
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    16 Moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

  • Job 31:26
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    26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

  • Eccl 11:7-8
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    7 Truly the light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to behold the sun.

    8 But if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all, let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is vanity.

  • Prov 14:24
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    24 The crown of the wise is their riches, but the foolishness of fools is folly.

  • Eccl 4:7
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    7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

  • Prov 8:11-12
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    71%

    11 For wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired cannot compare to it.

    12 I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

  • Eccl 10:2-3
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    2 A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

    3 Yes, also, when he that is a fool walks by the way, his wisdom fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

  • Eccl 4:13
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    13 Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king who will not be admonished anymore.

  • Eccl 7:4
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    4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of laughter.

  • Eccl 6:11
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    11 Since there are many things that increase vanity, what advantage does man have?

  • Prov 16:16
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    16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold, and to choose understanding rather than silver!

  • Job 29:3
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    3 When His lamp shone upon my head, and by His light I walked through darkness;