This wisdom have I seen also under the sun,.... Or, "this also I have seen under the sun, even wisdom" : 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 Ec 2:13, of which he gives the following instance.
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Ecclesiastes 9:13
Ecclesiastes 9:13
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