Ecclesiastes 7:18
Do not act with great impiety, and do not choose to be foolish, lest you die before your time.
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Psalms 25:12My foot has stood firm in the straight path. In the churches, I will bless you, O Lord.
Proverbs 4:25Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids precede your steps.
Proverbs 12:21Whatever may befall the just, it will not discourage him. But the impious will be filled with disasters.
Ecclesiastes 8:12But although a sinner may do evil of himself one hundred times, and by patience still endure, I realize that it will be well with those who fear God, who revere his face.
Ecclesiastes 12:13Let us all listen together to the end of the discourse. Fear God, and observe his commandments. This is everything for man.
Malachi 4:2But unto you, who fear my name, the Sun of justice will arise, and health will be in his wings. And you will go forth and leap like the calves of the herd.
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 →