Ecclesiastes 7:20
Wisdom has strengthened the wise more than ten princes of a city.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
In Context
21But there is no just man on earth, who does good and does not sin.
Cross References
1 Samuel 20:34Therefore, Jonathan rose up from the table in a rage of anger. And he did not eat bread on the second day after the new moon. For he was saddened over David, because his father had confounded him.
2 Chronicles 6:36But if they will have sinned against you (for there is no man who does not sin) and you will have become angry against them, and if you will have delivered them to their enemies, and so they lead them away as captives to a far away land, or even to one that is near,
Psalms 14:1A Psalm of David. O Lord, who will dwell in your tabernacle? Or who will rest on your holy mountain?
Psalms 130:3Let Israel hope in the Lord, from this time forward and even forever.
Proverbs 20:9Who is able to say: “My heart is clean. I am pure from sin?”
Isaiah 64:6And we have all become like the unclean. And all our justices are like a rag of menstruation. And we have all fallen away, like a leaf. And our iniquities have carried us away, like the wind.
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 →