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


In Context

10 Whatever my eyes desired, I didn't keep from them. I didn't withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

11 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

12 I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king's successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

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

14 The 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.

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

Ecclesiastes 2:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:13Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:13I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:13And I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as much as light differeth from darkness.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:13Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13And I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as light excelleth darkness.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:13Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:13Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.