Ecclesiastes 2:13 meaning and explanation

And I saw that wisdom exceeds folly, just as light exceeds darkness:

Ecclesiastes 2:13, Berean Standard Bible

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The speaker is the Teacher, a Jerusalem king who has tested pleasure, building projects, wealth and toil and found them fleeting. Here he compares wisdom with folly and grants that wisdom is genuinely better, as light is better than darkness.

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