Ecclesiastes 9:13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹³ I have observed that this also is wisdom under the sun, and it is significant to me:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ This [illustration of] wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great to me:

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ I have also seen wisdom under the sun on this wise, and it seemed great unto me:

Common English Bible

¹³ I also observed the following example of wisdom under the sun—it impressed me greatly:

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ This wisdom, likewise, I have seen under the sun, and I have examined it intensely.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ This wisdom also I have seen under the sun, and it seemed to me to be very great:

Ecclesiastes 9:13 Tagairtí Cros

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 6:1

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

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 7:19

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

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 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.

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.