Ecclesiastes 2:14 — Community Reflections

ECCLESIASTES 2:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 1 0

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

The observation that the wise walk in darkness just as the fool does, both having their eyes open to reality and both facing death, undercuts the advantage just granted to wisdom. Death as the ultimate leveler eliminates the difference between the wise and foolish, rendering wisdom's advantage temporary at best. Yet the verse does not withdraw the concession that wisdom provides superior sight during life; it merely insists that such superior perception provides no protection from the universal fate of mortality.

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