Ecclesiastes 9:13
¶ This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
¶ This wisedome haue I seene also vnder the Sunne, and it seemed great vnto me:
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- Ecclesiastes 8:16Rank 1 from verse 13
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:)
16¶ When I applied mine heart to know wisedome, and to see the busines that is done vpon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleepe with his eyes.)
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- Ecclesiastes 7:15Rank 3 from verse 13
15All 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.
15All things haue I seene in the dayes of my vanitie: there is a iust man that perisheth in his righteousnes, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickednes.
- Ecclesiastes 9:11Rank 4 from verse 13
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.
11¶ I returned, and saw vnder the Sunne, That the race is not to the swift, nor the battell to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of vnderstanding, nor yet fauour to men of skil; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
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Ecclesiastes 9:13
Knowledge, understanding, judgment, skill, or prudence.
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The great light that rules the day and gives light and heat.
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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of seem, meaning to appear, be regarded, or be fitting.
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12For 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.
12*For man also knoweth not his time, as the fishes that are taken in an euil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sonnes of men snared in an euill time, when it falleth suddenly vpon them.
13¶ This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
13¶ This wisedome haue I seene also vnder the Sunne, and it seemed great vnto me:
Selected passage14There 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:
14 There was a little citie, and few men within it; and there came a great King against it, and besieged it, & built great bulwarks against it: