Teks -- Ecclesiastes 2:13 (NET)

2:13 I realized that wisdom is preferable to folly, just as light is preferable to darkness:

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Wesley: Ecc 2:13 - I saw

I allowed thus much. Although wisdom is not sufficient to make men happy, yet it is of a far greater use than vain pleasures, or any other follies.

JFB: Ecc 2:13-14

(Pro 17:24). The worldly "wise" man has good sense in managing his affairs, skill and taste in building and planting, and keeps within safe and respectable bounds in pleasure, while the "fool" is wanting in these respects ("darkness," equivalent to fatal error, blind infatuation), yet one event, death, happens to both (Job 21:26).

Clarke: Ecc 2:13 - Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly

Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly - Though in none of these pursuits I found the supreme good, the happiness my soul longed after; yet I could easily perceive that wisdom excelled the others, as far as light excels darkness. And he immediately subjoins the reasons.

TSK: Ecc 2:13 - I saw // that wisdom excelleth folly // light

I saw : Ecc 7:11, Ecc 7:12, Ecc 9:16; Pro 4:5-7, Pro 16:16; Mal 3:18, Mal 4:1, Mal 4:2

that wisdom excelleth folly : Heb. that there is an excellency in wisdom more than in folly, etc

light : Ecc 11:7; Psa 119:105, Psa 119:130; Pro 4:18, Pro 4:19; Mat 6:23; Luk 11:34, Luk 11:35; Eph 5:8

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Poole: Ecc 2:13 - Then I saw // Wisdom excelleth folly // As far as light excelleth darkness

Then I saw or, yet I saw ; for this is added to prevent an Objection or mistake.

Wisdom excelleth folly although wisdom is not sufficient to make men truly and perfectly happy, yet it is of a far greater use and excellency than vain pleasures, or any other follies.

As far as light excelleth darkness i.e. vastly and unspeakably. Light is very pleasant and comfortable, and withal of great necessity and singular use to discover the differences of persons and things, to prevent mistakes and dangers, and to direct all a man’ s paths in the right way; whereas darkness is in itself doleful, and leads men into innumerable confusions, and errors, and miseries.

Gill: Ecc 2:13 - Then I sat that wisdom excelleth folly // as far as light excelleth darkness

Then I sat that wisdom excelleth folly,.... However, this upon a review of things he could not but own, that natural wisdom and knowledge, though there was no true happiness and satisfaction in them, yet they greatly exceeded folly and madness;

as far as light excelleth darkness; as the light of the day the darkness of the night; the one is pleasant and delightful, the other very uncomfortable; the one useful to direct in walking, the other very unsafe to walk in: light sometimes signifies joy and prosperity, and darkness adversity; the one is used to express the light of grace, and the other the darkness of sin and ignorance; now as the natural light exceeds darkness, and prosperity exceeds adversity and calamities, and a state of grace exceeds a state of sin and wickedness, so wisdom exceeds folly.