Ecclesiastes 7:13
For as wisdom protects, so also does money protect. But learning and wisdom have this much more: that they grant life to one who possesses them.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
In Context
12Wisdom with riches is more useful and more advantageous, for those who see the sun.
14Consider the works of God, that no one is able to correct whomever he has despised.
Cross References
Job 11:10If he overturns all things, or packs them together, who will contradict him?
Job 34:29For, when he grants peace, who is there that can condemn? When he hides his face, who is there that can contemplate him, either among the nations, or among all men?
Psalms 8:3Out of the mouths of babes and infants, you have perfected praise, because of your enemies, so that you may destroy the enemy and the revenger.
Ecclesiastes 1:15The perverse are unwilling to be corrected, and the number of the foolish is boundless.
Isaiah 5:12Harp and lyre and timbrel and pipe, as well as wine, are at your feasts. But you do not respect the work of the Lord, nor do you consider the works of his hands.
Isaiah 43:13And from the beginning, I am the same. And there is no one who can rescue from my hand. I act, and who can turn it aside?
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 →