Ecclesiastes 7:13

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For as wisdom is a defence, so money is a defence: but learning and wisdom excel in this, that they give life to him that possesseth them.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:15

The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.

Job 12:14

If he pull down, there is no man that can build up. If he shut up a man, there is none that can open.

Isaiah 5:12

The harp and the lyre and the timbrel and the pipe and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot find out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end.

Ephesians 1:11

In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will.

Isaiah 14:27

For the Lord of hosts hath decreed, and who can disannul it? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it away?

Romans 9:19

Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? for who resisteth his will?

Romans 9:15

For he saith to Moses: I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy; and I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy.

Isaiah 43:13

And from the beginning I am the same: and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who shall turn it away?

Job 37:14

Hearken to these things, Job: Stand, and consider the wondrous works of God.

Psalm 8:3

Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise, because of thy enemies: that thou mayst destroy the enemy and the avenger.

Job 34:29

For when he granteth peace, who is there that can condemn? When he hideth his countenance, who is there that can behold him, whether it regard nations, or all men?

Job 11:10

If he shall overturn all things, or shall press them together, who shall contradict him?

Job 9:12

If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? Or, who can say: Why dost thou so?

Ecclesiastes 8:17

And I understood that man can find no reason of all those works of God that are done under the sun: and the more he shall labour to seek, so much the less shall he find: yea, though the wise man shall say, that he knoweth it, he shall not be able to find it.

Luke 12:26

If then ye be not able to do so much as the least thing, why are you solicitous for the rest?