Ecclesiastes 7:12 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹² 9 Wisdom hath strengthened the wise more than ten princes of the city.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² For wisdom is a defense even as money is a defense, but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom shields and preserves the life of him who has it.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserveth the life of him that hath it.

Common English Bible

¹² Wisdom’s protection is like the protection of money; the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the lives of its possessors.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Wisdom with riches is more useful and more advantageous, for those who see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 7:12 Cross References

Job 1:10

5 And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

Psalm 57:1

Arise, O my glory, arise psaltery and harp: I will arise early.

Proverbs 11:4

1 By the blessing of the just the city shall be exalted: and by the mouth of the wicked it shall be overthrown.

Proverbs 14:20

7 The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to decline from the ruin of death.

Proverbs 2:11

8 And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell.

Proverbs 2:7

4 Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things:

Proverbs 3:18

5 Be not afraid of sudden fear, nor of the power of the wicked falling upon thee.

Proverbs 8:35

Forsake childishness, and live, and walk by the ways of prudence.

Proverbs 9:11

8 And he did not know that giants are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Ecclesiastes 10:19

In the morning sow thy seed, and In the evening let not thy hand cease: for thou knowest not which may rather spring up, this or that: and if both together, it shall be the better.

Ecclesiastes 2:13

0 Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring any more under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

6 And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.

Ecclesiastes 9:16

There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were by an error proceeding from the face of the prince:

Ecclesiastes 9:18

I have seen servants upon horses: and princes walking on the ground as servants.

Isaiah 30:2

0 Who say to the seers: See not: and to them that behold: Behold not for us those things that are right: speak unto us pleasant things, see errors for us.

Isaiah 32:2

0 For after days and a year, you that are confident shall be troubled: for the vintage is at an end, the gathering shall come no more.

Isaiah 33:6

4 The sinners in Sion are afraid, trembling hath seized upon the hypocrites. Which of you can dwell with devouring fire? which of you shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

John 12:50

Peter saith to him: Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him: If I wash thee not, thou shalt have no part with me.

John 17:3

1 And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou has given me; that they may be one, as we also are.

Deuteronomy 32:47

2 Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to the children of Israel, but thou shalt not enter into it.

Philippians 3:8

7 Be ye followers of me, brethren, and observe them who walk so as you have our model.

Judges 9:15

0 But if unjustly: let fire come out from him, and consume the inhabitants of Sichem, and the town of Mello: and let fire come out from the men of Sichem, and from the town of Mello, and devour Abimelech.