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 by it there is profit to them that see the sun.

Then said I, wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

How much better is it to get wisdom than gold? and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver?

Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

For behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Light

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:

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

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more to the perfect day.

But if thy eye be evil, thy whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee is darkness, how great is that darkness!

The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thy eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thy eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.

For ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light;