Ecclesiastes 9:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:

Ecclesiastes 9:13 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth:(for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
Ecclesiastes 6:1
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
Ecclesiastes 7:15
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 13-18)

Solomon still recommends wisdom to us as necessary to the preserving of our peace and the perfecting of our business, notwithstanding the vanities and crosses which human affairs are subject to. He had said (Eccl. 9:11), Bread is not always to the wise; yet he would not therefore be thought either to disparage, or to discourage, wisdom, no, he still retains his principle, that wisdom excels folly…

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

(vv. 13)

13. Rather, “I have seen wisdom of this kind also,” that is, exhibited in the way which is described in what follows [Maurer].