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Ecclesiastes 7:11 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 7 · verse 11
Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.Ecclesiastes 7:11 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 7:11 in context
9Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
10Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
11Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
12For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
13Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- inheritancenachălâhproperly, something inheritedH5159 →
- WisdomchokmâhwisdomH2451 →
- profityôwthêrproperly, redundantH3148 →
- goodṭôwbgood in the widest senseH2896 →
- seerâʼâhto see, literally or figurativelyH7200 →
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Solomon, in these verses, recommends wisdom to us as the best antidote against those distempers of mind which we are liable to, by reason of the vanity and vexation of spirit that there are in the things of this world. Here are some of the praises and the precepts of wisdom. I. The praises of wisdom.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-22