Ecclesiastes 9:13

New International Version

I also saw under the sun this example of wisdom that greatly impressed me:

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:22

Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bikri and threw it to Joab. So he sounded the trumpet, and his men dispersed from the city, each returning to his home. And Joab went back to the king in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 6:1

I have seen another evil under the sun, and it weighs heavily on mankind:

Ecclesiastes 7:15

In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these: the righteous perishing in their righteousness, and the wicked living long in their wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom makes one wise person more powerful than ten rulers in a city.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night—

Ecclesiastes 9:11

I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.

Ecclesiastes 9:14

There was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it and built huge siege works against it.

Daniel 2:14

When Arioch, the commander of the king’s guard, had gone out to put to death the wise men of Babylon, Daniel spoke to him with wisdom and tact.