Ecclesiastes 2:14

New American Bible - revised edition

Wise people have eyes in their heads, but fools walk in darkness. Yet I knew that the same lot befalls both.

Cross References

Psalm 19:10

The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever. The statutes of the Lord are true, all of them just;

Psalm 49:10

Will he live on forever, then, and never see the Pit of Corruption?

Psalm 49:11

Indeed, he will see that the wise die, and the fool will perish together with the senseless, and they leave their wealth to others.

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the shrewd enlightens their way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

Proverbs 17:24

On the countenance of a discerning person is wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

The wise person will have no more abiding remembrance than the fool; for in days to come both will have been forgotten. How is it that the wise person dies like the fool!

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For the lot of mortals and the lot of beasts is the same lot: The one dies as well as the other. Both have the same life breath. Human beings have no advantage over beasts, but all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Should such a one live twice a thousand years and not enjoy those goods, do not both go to the same place?

Ecclesiastes 6:8

What profit have the wise compared to fools, or what profit have the lowly in knowing how to conduct themselves in life?

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting, For that is the end of every mortal, and the living should take it to heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:1

Who is like the wise person, and who knows the explanation of things? Wisdom illumines the face and transforms a grim countenance.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

Again I saw under the sun that the race is not won by the swift, nor the battle by the valiant, nor a livelihood by the wise, nor riches by the shrewd, nor favor by the experts; for a time of misfortune comes to all alike.

Ecclesiastes 9:16

Though I had said, “Wisdom is better than force,” yet the wisdom of the poor man is despised and his words go unheeded.

1 John 2:11

Whoever hates his brother is in darkness; he walks in darkness and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes. Members of the Community.