Ecclesiastes 9:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

This [illustration of] wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great to me:

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

I also observed the following example of wisdom under the sun—it impressed me greatly:

Catholic Public Domain Version

This wisdom, likewise, I have seen under the sun, and I have examined it intensely.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Ecclesiastes 9:13 Krydshenvisninger

2 Samuel 20:22

Then the woman went to all the people with her wise plan. And they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, and all went to their homes, while Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

Ecclesiastes 6:1

There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy upon humankind:

Ecclesiastes 7:15

In my vain life I have seen everything; there are righteous people who perish in their righteousness, and there are wicked people who prolong their life in their evildoing.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom gives strength to the wise more than ten rulers who are in a city.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, how one’s eyes see sleep neither day nor night,

Ecclesiastes 9:11

Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to the skillful, but time and chance happen to them all.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For no one can anticipate one’s time. Like fish taken in a cruel net or like birds caught in a snare, so mortals are snared at a time of calamity, when it suddenly falls upon them.

Ecclesiastes 9:14

There was a little city with few people in it. A great king came against it and besieged it, building great siegeworks against it.

Daniel 2:14

Then Daniel responded with prudence and discretion to Arioch, the king’s chief executioner, who had gone out to execute the wise men of Babylon;