Ecclesiastes 9:13

New Living Translation

Here is another bit of wisdom that has impressed me as I have watched the way our world works.

Parallel Translations

Update Bible Version
I have also seen wisdom under the sun on this wise, and it seemed great to me:

New Century Version
I also saw something wise here on earth that impressed me.

New English Translation
This is what I also observed about wisdom on earth, and it is a great burden to me:

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Amplified Bible
This [illustration of] wisdom I have also seen under the sun, and great it was to me:

English Standard Version
I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also Y siy this wisdom vndur the sunne, and Y preuede it the mooste.

English Revised Version
I have also seen wisdom under the sun on this wise, and it seemed great unto me:

Berean Standard Bible
I have also seen this wisdom under the sun, and it was great to me:

Contemporary English Version
Once I saw what people really think of wisdom.

American Standard Version
I have also seen wisdom under the sun on this wise, and it seemed great unto me:

Bible in Basic English
This again I have seen under the sun as wisdom and it seemed great to me.

Complete Jewish Bible
Here is something else I have seen as wisdom under the sun, and it seemed important to me:

Darby Translation
This also have I seen as wisdom under the sun, and it was great unto me.

Easy-to-Read Version
I also saw a person doing a wise thing in this life, and it seemed very important to me.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
This also have I seen as wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:

King James Version (1611)
This wisedome haue I seene also vnder the Sunne, and it seemed great vnto me:

New Life Bible
I have also seen this as wisdom under the sun, and it made me think.

New Revised Standard
I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I haue also seene this wisedome vnder the sunne, and it is great vnto me.

George Lamsa Translation
This wisdom I have seen also under the sun, and it seemed great to me:

Good News Translation
There is something else I saw, a good example of how wisdom is regarded in this world.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Even this, had I seen of wisdom, under the sun, - and, of great import, was the same unto me: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
This wisdom also I have seen under the sun, and it seemed to me to be very great:

Revised Standard Version
I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
This wysdome haue I seene also vnder the sunne, and me thought it a great thing:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
This I also saw to be wisdom under the sun, and it is great before me:

Christian Standard Bible®
I have observed that this also is wisdom under the sun, and it is significant to me:

Hebrew Names Version
I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.

King James Version
This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:

Lexham English Bible
I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.

Literal Translation
This wisdom I saw also under the sun, and it is great to me:

Young's Literal Translation
This also I have seen: wisdom under the sun, and it is great to me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This wi?dome haue I sene also vnder ye Sone, & me thought it a greate thinge.

THE MESSAGE
One day as I was observing how wisdom fares on this earth, I saw something that made me sit up and take notice. There was a small town with only a few people in it. A strong king came and mounted an attack, building trenches and attack posts around it. There was a poor but wise man in that town whose wisdom saved the town, but he was promptly forgotten. (He was only a poor man, after all.)

New American Standard Bible
This too I saw as wisdom under the sun, and it impressed me:

New King James Version
This wisdom I have also seen under the sun, and it seemed great to me:

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Also this I came to see as wisdom under the sun, and it impressed me.

Legacy Standard Bible
Also this I came to see as wisdom under the sun, and it was great to me.

Contextual Overview

¹³ Here is another bit of wisdom that has impressed me as I have watched the way our world works. ¹⁴ There was a small town with only a few people, and a great king came with his army and besieged it. ¹⁵ A poor, wise man knew how to save the town, and so it was rescued. But afterward no one thought to thank him. ¹⁶ So even though wisdom is better than strength, those who are wise will be despised if they are poor. What they say will not be appreciated for long. ¹⁷ Better to hear the quiet words of a wise person than the shouts of a foolish king. ¹⁸ Better to have wisdom than weapons of war, but one sinner can destroy much that is good.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 9:11, Ecclesiastes 6:1, Ecclesiastes 7:15, Ecclesiastes 8:16

Reciprocal: Proverbs 21:22 - General Ecclesiastes 1:3 - under Ecclesiastes 2:19 - wise under Daniel 2:14 - with

Cross-References

Ezekiel 1:28
All around him was a glowing halo, like a rainbow shining in the clouds on a rainy day. This is what the glory of the Lord looked like to me. When I saw it, I fell face down on the ground, and I heard someone's voice speaking to me.

Revelation 4:3
The one sitting on the throne was as brilliant as gemstones—like jasper and carnelian. And the glow of an emerald circled his throne like a rainbow.

Revelation 10:1
Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, surrounded by a cloud, with a rainbow over his head. His face shone like the sun, and his feet were like pillars of fire.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This wisdom have I seen also under the sun,.... Or, "this also I have seen under the sun, even wisdom" h: besides those things he had, just now observed, he took notice that there was such a thing as wisdom among men; though success did not always attend the wise, the understanding, and skilful; and though there was so much ignorance in men, of their own time, and were so easily and suddenly ensnared in an evil time;

and it [seemed] great unto me; Solomon had a high value for wisdom, and he still retained the same sentiments of it he had before, in Ecclesiastes 2:13, of which he gives the following instance.

h גם זה ראיתי חכמה תחת השמש "Hoc etiam vidi sub sole, nempe sapientiam", Tigurine version; "etiam hoc vidi, sapientiam sub sole", Cocceius; "etiam hoc vidi, videlicet, sapientiam sub sole", Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Or, Also this have I seen - wisdom under the sun, and great it seemed to me.

From this verse to the end of Ecclesiastes 10:0, the writer inculcates, in a series of proverbs, wisdom in contrast to folly, as the best remedy in the present life to the evil of vanity.