Ecclesiastes 7:20
Wisdom hath strengthened the wise more than ten princes of the city.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
In Context
21For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.
Cross References
1 Samuel 20:34So Jonathan rose from the table in great anger, and did not eat bread on the second day after the new moon. For he was grieved for David, because his father had put him to confusion.
2 Chronicles 6:36And if they sin against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them up to their enemies, and they lead them away captive to a land either afar off, or near at hand,
Psalms 14:1Unto the end, a psalm for David. The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God, They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways: there is none that doth good, no not one.
Psalms 130:3The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity.
Proverbs 20:9Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure from sin?
Isaiah 64:6And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
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 →