Ecclesiastes 2:14
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English Standard Version
The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the same event happens to all of them.

New American Standard Bible
The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I know that one fate befalls them both.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also knew that one fate comes to them both.

International Standard Version
The wise use their eyes, but the fool walks in darkness. I also perceived that the same outcome affects them all.

NET Bible
The wise man can see where he is going, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that the same fate happens to them both.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A wise person uses the eyes in his head, but a fool walks in the dark. But I have also come to realize that the same destiny waits for both of them.

King James 2000 Bible
The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one fate happens to them all.

American King James Version
The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happens to them all.

American Standard Version
The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

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.

Darby Bible Translation
The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness; but I myself also perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

English Revised Version
The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness--and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

Young's Literal Translation
The wise! -- his eyes are in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;
Lexicon
The wise man's
chakam  (khaw-kawm')
wise, (i.e. intelligent, skilful or artful) -- cunning (man), subtil, (un-), wise(hearted), man).
eyes
`ayin  (ah'-yin)
an eye; by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
are in his head
ro'sh  (roshe)
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
but the fool
kciyl  (kes-eel')
fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly -- fool(-ish).
walketh
halak  (haw-lak')
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
in darkness
choshek  (kho-shek')
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness -- dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
and I myself perceived
yada`  (yaw-dah')
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially
also that one
'echad  (ekh-awd')
united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
event
miqreh  (mik-reh')
something met with, i.e. an accident or fortune -- something befallen, befalleth, chance, event, hap(-peneth).
happeneth
qarah  (kaw-raw')
to light upon (chiefly by accident); causatively, to bring about; specifically, to impose timbers (for roof or floor)
to them all
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