Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ecclesiastes 7:11 in context
Ecclesiastes 7:8–14
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Better is the end of a thing than its beginning.
The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
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Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
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Don’t say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For you do not ask wisely about this.
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Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
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For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
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Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which he has made crooked?
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In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.
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