Ecclesiastes 7:12
Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and there is an advantage by it to them that see the sun.
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Deuteronomy 32:47For this is no vain word to you; for it is your life, and because of this word you⌃ shall live long upon the land, into which you⌃ go over Jordan to inherit it.
Job 1:10Have you not made a hedge about him, and about his household, and all his possessions round about? and have you not blessed the works of his hands, and multiplied his cattle upon the land?
Psalms 57:1If you⌃ do indeed speak righteousness, then do you⌃ judge rightly, you⌃ sons of men. 1
Proverbs 2:11good counsel shall guard you, and holy understanding shall keep you;
Proverbs 8:35For my outgoings are the outgoings of life, and in them is prepared favor from the Lord.
Proverbs 11:4+ 11:4 there is no verse 4. The Alexandrine text has this. Possessions will not profit in a day of wrath, but righteousness will deliver from death.
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 →