This wisdom have I seen also under the sun
Or, "this also I have seen under the sun, even wisdom"
F8: 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 ( Ecclesiastes
2:13 ) ( Ecclesiastes
7:11 Ecclesiastes
7:12 Ecclesiastes
7:19 ) , of which he gives the following instance.
F8 (vmvh txt hmkx ytyar hz Mg) "Hoc etiam vidi sub sole, nempe sapientiam", Tigurine version; "etiam hoc vidi, sapientiam sub sole", Cocceius; "etiam hoc vidi, videlicet, sapientiam sub sole", Gejerus.
