Ecclesiastes 7:11

Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance, || And an advantage [it is] to those beholding the sun.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.

In Context

10Do not say, “What was it, || That the former days were better than these?” For you have not asked wisely of this.

12For wisdom [is] a defense, money [is] a defense, || And the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom [is], || She revives her possessors.

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Cross References

Job 28:12And the wisdom—from where is it found? And where [is] this, the place of understanding?

Proverbs 3:14For better [is] her merchandise || Than the merchandise of silver, || And than gold—her increase.

Proverbs 8:10Receive my instruction, and not silver, || And knowledge rather than choice gold.

Ecclesiastes 2:13And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.

Ecclesiastes 11:7Sweet also [is] the light, || And good for the eyes to see the sun.

1 Timothy 6:17Charge those rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment—

Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:8-11

Scenes of Mourning and of Joy. 7 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart. 8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. 9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. 10 Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this. Solomon had often complained before of the oppressions which he saw under the… Read the whole commentary →

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