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;


In Context

11 and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

12 And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what is the man who cometh after the king? that which is already — they have done it!

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

14 The 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;

15 and I said in my heart, 'As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this is vanity:

16 That there is no remembrance to the wise — with the fool — to the age, for that which is already, in the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with 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 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.