Chuándàoshū 2:13

13 Wǒ biàn kàn chū zhìhuì shēng guo yúmeì , rútóng guāngmíng shēng guo hēiàn .

Chuándàoshū 2:13 Meaning and Commentary

Ecclesiastes 2:13

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.

Chuándàoshū 2:13 In-Context

11 Hòulái wǒ chákàn wǒ shǒu suǒ jīng yíng de yīqiè shì , hé wǒ laólù suǒ chéng de gōng . shuí zhī dōu shì xū kōng , dōu shì bǔ fēng , zaì rì guāng zhī xià haó wúyì chù .

12 Wǒ zhuǎn niàn guānkàn zhìhuì , kuáng wàng , hé yúmeì . zaì wáng yǐhòu ér lái de rén , huán néng zuò shénme ne . yĕ bù guo xíng zǎo xiān suǒ xíng de jiù shì le .

13 Wǒ biàn kàn chū zhìhuì shēng guo yúmeì , rútóng guāngmíng shēng guo hēiàn .

14 Zhìhuì rén de yǎnmù guāngmíng , ( guāngmíng yuánwén zuò zaì tā tóu shang ) yúmeì rén zaì hēiàn lǐ xíng . wǒ què kàn míng yǒu yī jiàn shì , zhè liǎng dĕng rén dōu bì yùjiàn .

15 Wǒ jiù xīnli shuō , yúmeì rén suǒ yùjiàn de , wǒ yĕ bì yùjiàn . wǒ wèihé gèng yǒu zhìhuì ne . wǒ xīnli shuō , zhè yĕ shì xū kōng .