Ecclesiastes 2:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Ecclesiastes 2:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephesians 5:8
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Matthew 6:23
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Ecclesiastes 11:7
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:
Ecclesiastes 7:11-12
Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. …
Luke 11:34-35
The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-16)

Solomon having tried what satisfaction was to be had in learning first, and then in the pleasures of sense, and having also put both together, here compares them one with another and passes a judgment upon them. I. He sets himself to consider both wisdom and folly. He had considered these before (Eccl. 1:17); but lest it should be thought he was then too quick in passing a judgment upon them, he h…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13-14. (Pr 17:24). The worldly “wise” man has good sense in managing his affairs, skill and taste in building and planting, and keeps within safe and respectable bounds in pleasure, while the “fool” is wanting in these respects (“darkness,” equivalent to fatal error, blind infatuation), yet one event, death, happens to both (Job 21:26).