Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ecc 2:13 — Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
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I saw   Ecc 7:11,12; Ecc 9:16; Pro 4:5-7; Pro 16:16; Mal 3:18; Mal 4:1,2
that wisdom excelleth folly   Heb. that there is an excellency in wisdom more than in folly, etc.
light   Ecc 11:7; Psa 119:105,130; Pro 4:18,19; Mat 6:23; Luk 11:34,35; Eph 5:8
Correlating Passages
I saw
Ecc 7:11 Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance: and [by it there is] profit to them that see the sun.
Ecc 7:12 For wisdom [is] a defence, [and] money [is] a defence: but the excellency of knowledge [is, that] wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
Ecc 9:16 Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard.
Pro 4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Pro 4:6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
Pro 4:7 Wisdom [is] the principal thing; [therefore] get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Pro 16:16 How much better [is it] to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
Mal 3:18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Mal 4:1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, 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.
Mal 4:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
light
Ecc 11:7 Truly the light [is] sweet, and a pleasant [thing it is] for the eyes to behold the sun:
Psa 119:105 NUN. Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Psa 119:130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
Pro 4:18 But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Pro 4:19 The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Mat 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great [is] that darkness!
Luk 11:34 The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when [thine eye] is evil, thy body also [is] full of darkness.
Luk 11:35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
Eph 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

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Scott, Thomas. "Ecclesiastes 2:13," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Ecc/2/13.html>.

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