Ecclesiastes 2:13

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Summary

Ecclesiastes 2:13

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

I saw

Light

Bible References

I saw

Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and a remainder to those seeing the sun.

And I said, Wisdom is good above strength: and the wisdom of the poor one was despised, and his words not heard.

Obtain wisdom, obtain understanding: thou shalt not forget, and thou shalt not decline from the words of my mouth.

The obtaining of wisdom how good above gold and the obtaining of understanding to be chosen above silver.

And ye turned back and saw between the just to the unjust, and between him serving God and to him serving him not

For behold, the day coming, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all doing injustice were straw: and the day coming burnt them, said Jehovah of armies, that it shall not leave to them root and branch.

Light

And the light is sweet, and good to the eyes to see the sun:

Thy word a lamp to my feet, and a light to my beaten path.

The path of the just as the light shining, going and shining even to the day prepared.

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be dark. If therefore the light which in thee is darkness, how much the darkness

The light of the body is the eye; when therefore thine eye be plain, also thy whole body is clear: and when it be evil, also thy body dark.

For ye were then darkness, and now light in the Lord: walk ye as children of light: