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.


In Context

11 And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.

12 I passed further to behold wisdom, and errors and folly, (What is man, said I, that he can follow the King his maker?)

13 And I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as much as light differeth from darkness.

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

15 And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity.

16 For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool for ever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned.

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 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;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:14The 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.