Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
This wisdom have I seen also under the Sun, and me thought it a great thing.
New American Standard Bible
Also this I came to see as wisdom under the sun, and
King James Version
This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
Holman Bible
I have observed that this also is wisdom under the sun, and it is significant to me:
International Standard Version
I also observed this example of wisdom on earth, and it seemed important to me:
A Conservative Version
I have also seen wisdom under the sun this way, and it seemed great to me:
American Standard Version
I have also seen wisdom under the sun on this wise, and it seemed great unto me:
Amplified
This [illustration of] wisdom I have also seen under the sun, and great it was to me:
Bible in Basic English
This again I have seen under the sun as wisdom and it seemed great to me.
Darby Translation
This also have I seen as wisdom under the sun, and it was great unto me.
Julia Smith Translation
Also this I saw, the wisdom under the sun, and it was great to me:
King James 2000
This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
Lexham Expanded Bible
I have also seen this [example of] wisdom under the sun, and it [seemed] great to me.
Modern King James verseion
This wisdom I have seen also under the sun, and it seemed great to me.
NET Bible
This is what I also observed about wisdom on earth, and it is a great burden to me:
New Heart English Bible
I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.
The Emphasized Bible
Even this, had I seen of wisdom, under the sun, - and, of great import, was the same unto me: -
Webster
This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed to me great:
World English Bible
I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.
Youngs Literal Translation
This also I have seen: wisdom under the sun, and it is great to me.
Interlinear
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 9:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Wisdom'Although Vulnerable'Is Superior To Power
12 For man knoweth not his time, but like as the fish are taken with the angle and as the birds are caught with the snare: Even so are men taken in the perilous time, when it cometh suddenly upon them. 13 This wisdom have I seen also under the Sun, and me thought it a great thing. 14 There was a little city, and a few men within it: so there came a great king and besieged it, and made great bulwarks against it.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 6:1
There is yet a plague under the Sun, and it is a general thing among men:
Ecclesiastes 7:15
These two things also have I considered in the time of vanity: that the just man perisheth for his righteousness' sake, and the ungodly liveth in his wickedness.
Ecclesiastes 8:16
And so I applied my mind to learn wisdom, and to know the travail that is in the world; and that of such a fashion that I suffered not my eyes to sleep neither day nor night.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
So I turned me unto other things under the Sun, and I saw that in running it helpeth not to be swift; in battle it helpeth not to be strong; to feeding it helpeth not to be wise; to riches, it helpeth not to be suttle; to be had in favour, it helpeth not to be cunning: but that all lieth in time and fortune.