Good News TranslationThe wise can see where they are going, and fools cannot." But I also know that the same fate is waiting for us all.
New Revised Standard Version
The wise have eyes in their head, but fools walk in darkness. Yet I perceived that the same fate befalls all of them.
Contemporary English Version
Wisdom is like having two good eyes; foolishness leaves you in the dark. But wise or foolish, we all end up the same.
New American Bible
Wise people have eyes in their heads, but fools walk in darkness. Yet I knew that the same lot befalls both.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.
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Ecclesiastes 8:1 The wisdom of a man shineth in his countenance, and the most mighty will change his face.
Ecclesiastes 10:2,3 The heart of a wise man is in his right hand, and the heart of a fool is in his left hand. . . .
Proverbs 14:8 The wisdom of a discreet man is to understand his way: and the imprudence of fools erreth.
Proverbs 17:24 Wisdom shineth in the face of the wise: the eyes of fools are in the ends of the earth.
1 John 2:11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in darkness and knoweth not whither he goeth: because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.
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Ecclesiastes 9:1-3,11,16 All these things have I considered in my heart, that I might carefully understand them: there are just men and wise men, and their works are in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not whether he be worthy of love, or hatred: . . .
Psalm 19:10 More to be desired than gold and many precious stones: and sweeter than honey and the honeycomb.
Psalm 49:10 He shall not see destruction, when he shall see the wise dying: the senseless and the fool shall perish together: And they shall leave their riches to strangers: