Ecclesiastes 9:13

New American Bible - revised edition

On the other hand I saw this wise deed under the sun, which I thought magnificent.

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:22

In her wisdom, the woman went to all the people, and they cut off the head of Sheba, son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He then sounded the horn, and they scattered from the city to their own tents, while Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king. David’s Officials.

Ecclesiastes 6:1

There is another evil I have seen under the sun, and it weighs heavily upon humankind:

Ecclesiastes 7:15

I have seen all manner of things in my vain days: the just perishing in their justice, and the wicked living long in their wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom is a better defense for the wise than ten princes in the city,

Ecclesiastes 8:16

I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, though neither by day nor by night do one’s eyes see sleep,

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 9:12

Human beings no more know their own time than fish taken in the fatal net or birds trapped in the snare; like these, mortals are caught when an evil time suddenly falls upon them. The Uncertain Future and the Sages.

Ecclesiastes 9:14

Against a small city with few inhabitants advanced a mighty king, who surrounded it and threw up great siegeworks about it.

Daniel 2:14

Then Daniel prudently took counsel with Arioch, the chief of the king’s guard, who had set out to kill the wise men of Babylon.