Ecclesiastes 7:12

New English Translation

For wisdom provides protection, just as money provides protection. But the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves the life of its owner.

Cross References

Job 1:10

Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.

Psalm 57:1

Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me! For in you I have taken shelter. In the shadow of your wings I take shelter until trouble passes.

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth does not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from mortal danger.

Proverbs 14:20

A poor person is disliked even by his neighbors, but those who love the rich are many.

Proverbs 2:11

Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you,

Proverbs 2:7

He stores up effective counsel for the upright, and is like a shield for those who live with integrity,

Proverbs 3:18

She is like a tree of life to those who obtain her, and everyone who grasps hold of her will be blessed.

Proverbs 8:35

For the one who finds me finds life and receives favor from the Lord.

Proverbs 9:11

For because of me your days will be many, and years will be added to your life.

Ecclesiastes 10:19

Feasts are made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.

Ecclesiastes 2:13

I realized that wisdom is preferable to folly, just as light is preferable to darkness:

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom gives a wise person more protection than ten rulers in a city.

Ecclesiastes 9:16

So I concluded that wisdom is better than might, but a poor man’s wisdom is despised; no one ever listens to his advice.

Ecclesiastes 9:18

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner can destroy much that is good.

Isaiah 30:2

They travel down to Egypt without seeking my will, seeking Pharaoh’s protection, and looking for safety in Egypt’s protective shade.

Isaiah 32:2

Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from a rainstorm; like streams of water in a dry region and like the shade of a large cliff in a parched land.

Isaiah 33:6

He is your constant source of stability; he abundantly provides safety and great wisdom; he gives all this to those who fear him.

John 12:50

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”

John 17:3

Now this is eternal life – that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

Deuteronomy 32:47

For this is no idle word for you – it is your life! By this word you will live a long time in the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.”

Philippians 3:8

More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things – indeed, I regard them as dung! – that I may gain Christ,

Judges 9:15

The thornbush said to the trees, ‘If you really want to choose me as your king, then come along, find safety under my branches! Otherwise may fire blaze from the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!’