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Ecclesiastes 7:14 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 7 · verse 14
In 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.Ecclesiastes 7:14 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 7:14 in context
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.
15All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
16Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself ?
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Key words (Strong's)
- prosperityṭôwbgood in the widest senseH2896 →
- adversityraʻbad or evilH7451 →
- considerrâʼâhto see, literally or figurativelyH7200 →
- againstʻummâhconjunctionH5980 →
- nothingmᵉʼûwmâhproperly, a speck or pointH3972 →
- findmâtsâʼproperly, to come forth toH4672 →
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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