Ecclesiastes 9:18

New American Bible - revised edition

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one bungler destroys much good.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:2

He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, following the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.

Job 35:8

Your wickedness affects only someone like yourself, and your justice, only a fellow human being.

Ecclesiastes 10:1

Dead flies corrupt and spoil the perfumer’s oil; more weighty than wisdom or wealth is a little folly!

Ecclesiastes 10:10

If the ax becomes dull, and the blade is not sharpened, then effort must be increased. But the advantage of wisdom is success.

Ecclesiastes 2:13

And I saw that wisdom has as much profit over folly as light has over darkness.

Ecclesiastes 7:12

For the protection of wisdom is as the protection of money; and knowledge is profitable because wisdom gives life to those who possess it.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom is a better defense for the wise than ten princes in the city,

Ecclesiastes 9:16

Though I had said, “Wisdom is better than force,” yet the wisdom of the poor man is despised and his words go unheeded.

2 Timothy 3:8

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so they also oppose the truth—people of depraved mind, unqualified in the faith.

Joshua 22:20

When Achan, son of Zerah, acted treacherously by violating the ban, was it not upon the entire community of Israel that wrath fell? Though he was but a single man, he did not perish alone for his guilt!” Reply of the Eastern Tribes.

Joshua 7:1

But the Israelites acted treacherously with regard to the ban; Achan, son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah of the tribe of Judah, took goods that were under the ban, and the anger of the Lord flared up against the Israelites.

Joshua 7:5

who killed some thirty-six of them. They pursued them from the city gate to the Shebarim, and defeated them on the descent, so that the confidence of the people melted away like water.

1 Samuel 14:30

What is more, if the army had eaten freely of the enemy’s plunder when they came across it today, surely the slaughter of the Philistines would have been the greater by now!” Consuming the Blood.