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Ecclesiastes 7:12 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 7 · verse 12
For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.Ecclesiastes 7:12 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 7:12 in context
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?
14In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- excellencyyithrôwnpreeminence, gainH3504 →
- knowledgedaʻathknowledgeH1847 →
- defencetsêlshade, whether literal or figurativeH6738 →
- wisdomchokmâhwisdomH2451 →
- moneykeçephsilverH3701 →
- lifechâyâhto live, whether literally or figurativelyH2421 →
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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