Ecclesiastes 2:13

New English Translation

I realized that wisdom is preferable to folly, just as light is preferable to darkness:

Cross References

Psalm 119:105

Your word is a lamp to walk by, and a light to illumine my path.

Psalm 119:130

Your instructions are a doorway through which light shines. They give insight to the untrained.

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the shrewd person is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deception.

Proverbs 16:16

How much better it is to acquire wisdom than gold; to acquire understanding is more desirable than silver.

Ecclesiastes 10:10

If an iron axhead is blunt and a workman does not sharpen its edge, he must exert a great deal of effort; so wisdom has the advantage of giving success.

Ecclesiastes 11:7

Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for a person to see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom gives a wise person more protection than ten rulers in a city.

Ecclesiastes 9:16

So I concluded that wisdom is better than might, but a poor man’s wisdom is despised; no one ever listens to his advice.

Ecclesiastes 9:18

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner can destroy much that is good.

Malachi 3:18

Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.

Matthew 6:23

But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Ephesians 5:8

for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light –