Ecclesiastes 7:18
It is good that thou should take hold of this, yea, also from that withdraw not thy hand. For he who fears God shall come forth from them all.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
17Do not much wrong, nor be thou a fool. Why should thou die before thy time?
19Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers that are in a city.
Cross References
Psalms 25:12What man is he who fears LORD? Him he shall instruct in the way that he shall choose.
Proverbs 4:25Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Proverbs 12:21There shall no mischief happen to a righteous man, but the wicked shall be filled with evil.
Ecclesiastes 8:12Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and prolongs his [days], yet surely I know that it shall be well with those who fear God, who fear before him.
Ecclesiastes 12:13[This is] the end of the matter, all has been heard: Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole of man.
Malachi 4:2But to you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in its wings, and ye shall go forth, and frolic as calves of the stall.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:12-23
The Advantages of Wisdom. 11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. 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. 13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? 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.… Read the whole commentary →