Canticum Canticorum 9:13

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Hanc quoque sub sole vidi sapientiam,
et probavi maximam:

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Mulier stulta et clamosa, plenaque illecebris, et nihil omnino sciens,

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Hanc quoque sub sole vidi sapientiam et probavi maximam:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 9:11, Ecclesiastes 6:1, Ecclesiastes 7:15, Ecclesiastes 8:16

Reciprocal: Proverbs 21:22 - General Ecclesiastes 1:3 - under Ecclesiastes 2:19 - wise under Daniel 2:14 - with

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This wisdom have I seen also under the sun,.... Or, "this also I have seen under the sun, even wisdom" h: 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, of which he gives the following instance.

h גם זה ראיתי חכמה תחת השמש "Hoc etiam vidi sub sole, nempe sapientiam", Tigurine version; "etiam hoc vidi, sapientiam sub sole", Cocceius; "etiam hoc vidi, videlicet, sapientiam sub sole", Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Or, Also this have I seen - wisdom under the sun, and great it seemed to me.

From this verse to the end of Ecclesiastes 10:0, the writer inculcates, in a series of proverbs, wisdom in contrast to folly, as the best remedy in the present life to the evil of vanity.