Ecclesiastes 2:14 Cross References - YLT

¹⁴ The wise! —his eyes are in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;

¹⁰ They are more desirable than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, Even liquid honey of the comb.

¹⁰ For he seeth wise men die, Together the foolish and brutish perish, And have left to others their wealth.

⁸ The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, And the folly of fools is deceit.

²⁴ The face of the intelligent is to wisdom, And the eyes of a fool—at the end of the earth.

¹⁹ For an event is to the sons of man, and an event is to the beasts, even one event is to them; as the death of this, so is the death of that; and one spirit is to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole is vanity.

⁶ And though he had lived a thousand years twice over, yet good he hath not seen; to the same place doth not every one go?

² Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth it unto his heart.

¹ Who is as the wise? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? The wisdom of man causeth his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

¹ But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole is before them. ² The whole is as to the whole; one event is to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, and to him who is sacrificing, and to him who is not sacrificing; as is the good, so is the sinner, he who is swearing as he who is fearing an oath. ³ This is an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event is to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and after it—unto the dead.

¹¹ I have turned so as to see under the sun, that not to the swift is the race, nor to the mighty the battle, nor even to the wise bread, nor even to the intelligent wealth, nor even to the skilful grace, for time and chance happen with them all.

¹⁶ And I said, `Better is wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.' —

² The heart of the wise is at his right hand, And the heart of a fool at his left. ³ And also, when he that is a fool Is walking in the way, his heart is lacking, And he hath said to every one, `He is a fool.'

¹¹ and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.