Ecclesiastes 7:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁹ Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers which are in a city.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ [True] wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers or valiant generals who are in the city. [Ps. 127:1; II Tim. 3:15.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers that are in a city.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Wisdom makes a wise person stronger than ten rulers who are in a city.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ It is good for you to support a just man. Furthermore, you should not withdraw your hand from him, for whoever fears God, neglects nothing.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ It is good that thou shouldst hold up the just, yea and from him withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God, neglecteth nothing.

Ecclesiastes 7:19 Cross References

Proverbs 21:22

A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, And bringeth down the strength of the confidence thereof.

Proverbs 24:5

A wise man is strong; Yea, a man of knowledge increaseth might.

Proverbs 8:14

Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: I am understanding; I have might.

Ecclesiastes 4:13

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.

Ecclesiastes 7:12

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.