Ecclesiastes 7:18
It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also don’t withdraw your hand from that; for he who fears God will come out of them all.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
17Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?
19Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
Cross References
Psalms 25:12What man is he who fears the LORD? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
Proverbs 4:25Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.
Proverbs 12:21No mischief shall happen to the righteous, but the wicked shall be filled with evil.
Ecclesiastes 8:12Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
Ecclesiastes 12:13This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
Malachi 4:2But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of the stall.
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 →