Ecclesiastes 7:12
Wisdom with riches is more useful and more advantageous, for those who see the sun.
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Deuteronomy 32:47For these things have not been entrusted to you to no purpose, but so that each one would live by them, and so that, in doing these, you may continue for a long time in the land, which you will enter upon crossing the Jordan in order to possess it.”
Job 1:10Have you not fortified him, as well as his house and every one of his belongings around him, blessed the works of his hands, and his possession has increased in the land?
Psalms 57:1Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title.
Proverbs 2:11then counsel must guard you, and prudence must serve you,
Proverbs 8:35He who finds me, finds life, and he will draw salvation from the Lord.
Proverbs 11:4Wealth will not profit in the day of vengeance. But justice shall liberate from death.
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 →