"This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it {seemed} great unto me:" — Ecclesiastes 9:13

Ecclesiastes 9:13 · KJV

“This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it {seemed} great unto me:”

— Ecclesiastes 9:13

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so {are} the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Verse 14

{There was} a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

Ecclesiastes 9 — Context

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.

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

{There was} a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Cross References

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