14The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happens to them all.


In Context

11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had worked, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that comes after the king? even that which has been already done.

13 Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

14 The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happens to them all.

15 Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dies the wise man? as the fool.

Ecclesiastes 2:14 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:14The wise man’s eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:14The wise man has eyes in his head, while the fool walks in the darkness; but I came to realize that the same fate overtakes them both.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:14The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:14The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:14The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness; but I myself also perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:14The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:14The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:14The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:14The wise! — his eyes are in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;