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Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

Ecclesiastes 2:13 · WEB

This verse in other languages

ગુજરાતીસભાશિક્ષક ૨:૧૩
પછી મેં જોયું કે જેટલે દરજ્જે અજવાળું અંધકારથી શ્રેષ્ઠ છે, તેટલે દરજ્જે જ્ઞાન મૂર્ખાઈથી શ્રેષ્ઠ છે.
हिन्दीसभोपदेशक २:१३
तब मैंने देखा कि उजियाला अंधियारे से जितना उत्तम है, उतना बुद्धि भी मूर्खता से उत्तम है।

In context

11Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

12I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly; for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

13Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

14The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

15Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

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