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Ecclesiastes 2

Eccl. 2:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Ther wise man’s
chakam (Hebrew #2450)
wise, (i.e. intelligent, skilful or artful)
KJV usage: cunning (man), subtil, ((un-)), wise((hearted), man).
Pronounce: khaw-kawm'
Origin: from 2449
eyes
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
are in his head
ro'sh (Hebrew #7218)
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
KJV usage: band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, X every (man), excellent, first, forefront, ((be-))head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), X lead, X poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
Pronounce: roshe
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to shake
; but the fool
kciyl (Hebrew #3684)
properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly
KJV usage: fool(-ish).
Pronounce: kes-eel'
Origin: from 3688
walketh
halak (Hebrew #1980)
a primitive root; to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (all) along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, + be eased, enter, exercise (self), + follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), + greater, grow, be wont to haunt, lead, march, X more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the point, quite, run (along), + send, speedily, spread, still, surely, + tale-bearer, + travel(-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to places), wander, wax, (way-)faring man, X be weak, whirl.
Pronounce: haw-lak'
Origin: akin to 3212
in darkness
choshek (Hebrew #2822)
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
KJV usage: dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
Pronounce: kho-shek'
Origin: from 2821
: and I myself perceived
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
also that one
'echad (Hebrew #259)
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
KJV usage: a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-)ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
Pronounce: ekh-awd'
Origin: a numeral from 258
s event
miqreh (Hebrew #4745)
something met with, i.e. an accident or fortune
KJV usage: something befallen, befalleth, chance, event, hap(-peneth).
Pronounce: mik-reh'
Origin: from 7136
happeneth
qarah (Hebrew #7136)
to light upon (chiefly by accident); causatively, to bring about; specifically, to impose timbers (for roof or floor)
KJV usage: appoint, lay (make) beams, befall, bring, come (to pass unto), floor, (hap) was, happen (unto), meet, send good speed.
Pronounce: kaw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root
to them all.
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Prov. 17:24• 24Wisdom [is] before the face of him that hath understanding;{HR}But the eyes of a fool [are] in the ends of the earth. (Prov. 17:24)
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Psa. 49:10• 10For he seeth [that] wise men die;{HR}Together the fool and the brutish man perish{HR}And have left to others their wealth. (Psa. 49:10)

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Ministry on This Verse

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wise.
Eccl. 8:1• 1Who [is] as the wise man?{HR}And who knoweth the interpretation of a thing?{HR}A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine,{HR}And the hardness of his face is changed. (Eccl. 8:1)
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Eccl. 10:2‑3• 2The heart of a wise one is at his right hand,{HR}But a fool's heart at his left.
 3Yea, also, when the fool walketh by the way,{HR}His heart faileth, and he saith to every one he is a fool. (Eccl. 10:2‑3)
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Prov. 14:8• 8The wisdom of the prudent [is] to understand his way;{HR}But the folly of fools [is] deceit. (Prov. 14:8)
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Prov. 17:24• 24Wisdom [is] before the face of him that hath understanding;{HR}But the eyes of a fool [are] in the ends of the earth. (Prov. 17:24)
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1 John 2:11• 11But he that hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not where he goeth, because the darkness blinded his eyes. (1 John 2:11)
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Eccl. 9:1‑3,11,16• 1For all this I laid to my heart,{HR}Even to explore all this,{HR}That the righteous, and the wise,{HR}And their works, are in the hand of God:{HR}Whether it be love or hatred,{HR}Man knoweth it not; all is before them.
 2All things [come] alike to all:{HR}There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked;{HR}To the good, and to the clean and to the unclean;{HR}To him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not:{HR}As is the good, so is the sinner;{HR}He that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
 3This is an evil in all that is done under the sun,{HR}That there is one event unto all:{HR}Yea also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil,{HR}And madness is in [their] heart while they live;{HR}And, after that, they go to the dead.
 11I returned and saw under the sun,{HR}That the race is not to the swift,{HR}Nor the battle to the strong,{HR}Neither yet bread to the wise,{HR}Nor yet riches to men of understanding,{HR}Nor yet favour to men of knowledge;{HR}But time and chance happeneth to them all.
 16Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength:{HR}Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised,{HR}And his words are not heard. (Eccl. 9:1‑3,11,16)
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Psa. 19:10• 10To be desired more than gold, and more than much pure gold;{HR}And sweeter than honey and the dropping of the honeycomb. (Psa. 19:10)
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Psa. 49:10• 10For he seeth [that] wise men die;{HR}Together the fool and the brutish man perish{HR}And have left to others their wealth. (Psa. 49:10)
• Socrates and Solomon, with many another worthy name, are here in perfect accord, and testify together that “the wise man’s eyes are in his head, but the fool walketh in darkness.” Not that men prefer wisdom to folly; on the contrary; still even human reason gives this judgment: for the wise man walks at least as a man, intelligently; the spirit, the intelligence, having its place. (“Ecclesiastes 2” by F.C. Jennings)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the foola walketh in darkness; but I myself also perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

JND Translation Notes

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Kesil, and so generally in this Book, in which Eveel is not used. see Prov. 1.7; 18.2; 26.1; 28.26.

W. Kelly Translation

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The wise man’s eyes [are] in his head,{HR}And the fool walketh in darkness:{HR}And yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all.