Ecclesiastes 9:13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I have observed that this also is wisdom under the sun, and it is significant to me:

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my mind to know wisdom  and to observe the activity that is done on the earth (even though one’s eyes do not close in sleep day or night),

Ecclesiastes 7:15

In my futile life  I have seen everything:  someone righteous perishes in spite of his righteousness,  and someone wicked lives long in spite of his evil.

Ecclesiastes 6:1

Here is a tragedy I have observed under the sun,  and it weighs heavily on humanity:

Ecclesiastes 9:11

Again I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift,  or the battle to the strong,  or bread to the wise, or riches to the discerning, or favour to the skilful; rather, time and chance happen to all of them.

2 Samuel 20:22

The woman went to all the people with her wise counsel,  and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn, and they dispersed from the city, each to his own tent. Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom makes the wise person stronger than ten rulers of a city.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For certainly no one knows his time:  like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap,  so people are trapped in an evil time  as it suddenly falls on them.

Ecclesiastes 9:14

There was a small city with few men in it. A great king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege works against it.

Daniel 2:14

Then Daniel responded with tact and discretion to Arioch, the captain of the king’s guard,  , who had gone out to execute the wise men of Babylon.